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"Since its release of about 2000 diplomatic cables (as of January 7th, 2011), Wikileaks has been subject to extraordinary pressures, seemingly at the behest of the US government. Amazon and EveryDNS have denied Wikileaks internet service and Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and Bank of America have been prevented supporters from donating money to Wikileaks. This is despite the fact that Wikileaks has not even been charged with a crime.

Unfortunately, the situation has gotten even worse. The press has been spreading lies about Wikileaks. Mainstream media outlets do not appear to be doing even the most rudimentary fact-checking. The most blatant of these lies is the idea that Wikileaks has “indiscriminately dumped 250,000 cables on the internet”. This is flat-out false.

A few news organizations, including NPR and InformationWeek, have corrected this mistake, and NPR has even offered an apology. By contrast, most news organizations ranging from the AP to the Wall Street Journal continue to print this falsehood.

We call upon all news organizations to correct previous articles and statements, to issue apologies to their readers, and to take steps to prevent this mistake from occurring in any future articles and shows.

We will be protesting outside the TransAmerica pyramid, across from a San Francisco office of the New York Times, on Saturday, January 15th, at 4pm. On that day, we will be joining in protesting against the repression of Wikileaks with many others around the world, including Washington, DC, and several cities in Canada and Australia.

To counter the New York Times’s censorship of reality, we plan to publish the released cables on the walls of their building. In addition, participants will be provided cable printouts and markers and encouraged to throw down their artistic abilities by adding a graphic representation of their favorite cable to the Cablegate Coloring Book.

References:

[1] 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media

www.alternet.org/story/149369/8_smears_and_misconceptions...

[2] NPR Fesses Up to WikiLeaks’ Coverage Blunder, Now It’s Everyone Else’s Turn

lippmannwouldroll.com/2010/12/28/npr-fesses-up-to-wikilea...

more wikileaks photos

www.flickr.com/photos/ari/collections/72157625853473374/

Spanish Steps 3 by Abir Anwar

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Sunset at the Spanish Steps

Down the Steps by Jim Frazier

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Sandy Hook Unit

Gateway National Recreation Area

Fort Hancock, New Jersey

April 2008

On the National Register of Historic Places

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Stairway by jclor

Steps/ Minds Eye by Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK)

Foto: Johannes Dietschi © Hochschulkommunikation ZHdK. Freie Verwendung im Rahmen von Ankündigung und Berichterstattung zur Produktion

Bedruthan Steps by Canis Major (Steve)

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Bedruthan Steps on the north Cornwall coast between Padstow and Newquay is named after a mythological giant who used the rocks as stepping stones and not the 142 steps needed to access the beach from the car park above.

Back Steps by ChiDN

Marshfield Avenue Building (MAB) University of Illinois at chicago (UIC)

Water Steps by Joshua Cole

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Water Steps, Bristol waterfront. Samyang 14mm test shot.

10 steps by -Ant

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Spanish Steps by Dermot Williams

Me at the Spanish Steps

Steps for sky by Arifin Billah Photography

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Steps to sculptures by Vivian Evans

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Sculptured steps to begin the discovery of sculptures in the Dandry Gorge

Steps by Charles Wosu

DSC_3763 by Paul Maki

Grant's Tomb, New York by Joe Schumacher

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This is yet another variation of this popular view. It's a darker, slightly cropped alternative to this card. It has the bus but lacks the ships of this version, and it's a lot less busy than this version. But, look closely and you'll notice that all the versions have the two people on the steps in front of the memorial and three people at the bottom left of the stairs.

Steps by Conal Gallagher

Steps

The Village, Christopher Street by ktmqi

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Steps from The Stonewall Inn (undergoing renovations again) the buildings are a mixed bag of new, old, restored and remuddled.

steps by Nick

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glass steps

Steps by George Redgrave

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It takes quite a while for stone steps to wear like this.

P1100111 by John Pitts

Dear All,

Thank you very much for all of your effort yesterday. A good turnout (20 volunteers) and a very good task! We have in the past struggled to cut a quarter of the reedbed in the course of one task but, thanks to the drier than normal conditions underfoot and everyone’s brilliant effort, we got it done with a little time to spare (probably a good job – everyone, including me, was flagging).

Next week’s task is at Ampthill Park; meet at the West Car Park at 10am (map attached).Regards, Tim

A relaxing day - reeding in bed

The day started just after midnight and not long after that the first voles yawned their way into a quiet, coolly-dry haven of serenity. This was soon to change as Mr T arrived with his arsenal of destruction. From now on nothing in nature was safe. Quickly he growled orders to his underlings. Slowly they absorbed them, stored them into dark, dank corners of their minds, closed the door on them and would later deny anything and everything. I was going to write 'any knowledge', but being as none of that would be there anyway it seemed silly.

So with Mr T returning to pick up stragglers, the tooled up berserkers stormed the once tranquil sea of gently waving reeds.

Dave M (The Mangler) charged ahead slashing away all in his path, driveway, three lane motorway - you name it, he slashed it!

(Stealthy) Steve was more circumspect. Enough said.

It wasn't long before everything was either working like a well oiled machine or like it was well oiled. (So I lie a lot). It also wasn't long before Mr T was in full panic mode as the fire was smoking more than firing, the strimmers were zagzigging in places they should have been zigzagging, the rakers were forking and the forkers were leaning on the rakes just for a change. Obviously time for tea.

As so revitalised with tea, coffee, cherry liqueur chocolate muffins, bread pudding and doughnuts everyone settled into what they really do best, chatting.

But not for long. Within hours they were at it again - lunch.

The end was nigh on impossible. But for voles nothing is possible when impossibility challenges them. So the end rounded off another entertaining day like a square peg in a round hole. Sorry I got confused there, which is unusual for me so quite confusing. However, anyone finding a square peg please return it to the nearest round hole.

Incredibly a quarter of the reed bed was no more than a waste land. The voles had triumphed over nature again. All our work had gone up in smoke, as people in neighbouring villages could testify.

Mr T huddled by the remains of the day, nervous twitches convulsing his shattered body. " Well I suppose I should say thank you. " he blubbed, wiping the tears from his eyes, (smoke was still oozing from the dying embers of the fire). Opening them he discovered he was alone. Mr T smiled for the first time in the day.

Thanks to everyone who took part in a very productive day. Just think in four years time we'll all be back in that quarter again, hurrah.

Malcolm

Thanks Tim, it was a pleasure being there even if my poorly back stopped me doing very much. It was a good day and the cakes looked good and the B&BP was very

nourishing. I have to say Malcolm's report was a bit on the downside but that comes from him being a miserable but kind old fart or was that "tart". He was quite right

about the skill of leaning on your rake or fork, admiring the efforts of the other 50% actually working but then we are all starting to feel our age. It was good to locate Mr

Lawrence's Otter holt location again after it was buried many summers ago. Again we all felt gratitude to Steve S for his fence steps as it saved so many extra steps.

As usual my snaps of the day are at www.flickr.com/photos/pitzys_pyx/ and start with a few shots of the clearance work done by the Flit but then work

backwards through the day until I arrived, late again. We missed Colin A and Stavros and hope they are doing OK. I spoke to Audrey tonight and she is still making

progress with her tidy up but sadly has cast out our mugs as they were too tea encrusted. Funny that as an accessory to so many days in the wild and wet I really

valued my Boy 1 blue mug. Mind you Audrey still has the plates and spoon and is threatening a hot pud when we are at Duck End :) .

Just in case you missed the event on 29th I have attached Gillian and my eulogies for John.

Cheers

JP

Steps, Heaton Woods, Bradford by Tim Green

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Goodbye NFL by Rick Warden

Kaepernick's incredible hypocrisy as the disgruntled victim and partaker of massive oppression is highlighted by the fact that he refuses to vote. The L.A. Times highlights that "Blacks and whites were beaten, busted and bitten by police dogs while marching for voting rights in the 1960s. Some were murdered." And Kaepernick's disregard for the right to vote is a slap in the face to all those that took practical steps to gain this right.

It's difficult to say whether Kaepernick is more of a spoiled brat or a conscious anarchist, or both equally. What should be noted is that the exaggerated victim mentality and the separation of people from their roots and their patriotism are things that Marxist Saul Alinsky advocated as a means towards a Marxist-Socialist revolutionary takeover:

"They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."

A lot of people do not seem to understand the difference between valid altruistic activism with a clear and tangible goal and mere anarchy that causes division and denigrates authority. Hopefully, more people will wake up and understand the difference before it's too late. I worship God and not the NFL. I stand for the rights of all races and to honor all veterans that died for my freedoms. I do not kneel for anarchists that cause division with no clear plan or purpose. I love football but I love other things more. Goodbye NFL!

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