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Tom Cruise Scientology promotional video leaked to the Internet

January 17, 2008

Two days before Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, a biography of actor Tom Cruise written by journalist Andrew Morton, was released in the United States, a video showing Cruise promoting Scientology was leaked to the Internet. The promotional video appeared on video-sharing sites including YouTube, Gawker.com and radar online.com, and clips from the video were also shown on Wednesday morning talk shows in the United States.

In the 9-minute video produced by the Church of Scientology, Cruise is seen discussing his beliefs while the theme from his Mission: Impossible films plays as background music. Cruise appears wearing a black turtleneck sweater, speaking about his dedication to changing people's lives. The format of the video appears to be an interview with Cruise, and it is edited with questions cut out. Some of Cruise's responses end abruptly.

Throughout the video, Cruise uses Scientology jargon terms such as "KSW": "For me, it’s all about KSW." The term stands for Keeping Scientology Working, which refers to a 10-point letter written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1965 to ensure the organization's survival. Cruise also discusses "SPs", or Suppressive Persons, "PTSPs", a "potential trouble source" influenced by a Suppressive Person, and the need to "confront and shatter suppression".

Cruise makes assertions about programs which use Hubbard's teachings such as Criminon and Narconon "We're the authorities on getting people off drugs. We're the authorities on the mind. We're the authorities on improving conditions. We can rehabilitate criminals. Way to happiness. We can bring peace and unite cultures." Of the manner in which he wishes to spread Scientology's message, he says "You're in the playing field or out of the arena." Cruise also expresses his disdain for psychiatrists, "Crush these guys [psychiatrists]! I've had it! Psychiatry doesn't work. No mercy! None! Go to guns!"

The video concludes with Cruise laughing, and then a voiceover says: "Scientology can be defined by a single question: would you want others to develop the knowledge you have? In answering that question, Tom Cruise has introduced LRH [L. Ron Hubbard] technology to more than 1 billion people on earth. And that is only the first wave he has unleashed. That is why the story of Tom Cruise, Scientologist, has only just begun."

According to Reuters, the Church of Scientology stated that the video was shown at a 2004 meeting of the International Association of Scientologists. In a statement, the Church of Scientology said that the video was Cruise's acceptance speech after he had been given the organization's "Freedom Medal", and was shown "before an audience of 5,000 church parishioners and their guests." The statement also called the video that appeared on the Internet a "pirated and edited version." A representative for Cruise confirmed the Church of Scientology statement: "The video is of Mr. Cruise making an acceptance speech to fellow parishioners at a private church event in 2004." David Miscavige, head of the Church of Scientology, had presented Cruise with the "Freedom Medal of Valor" at the 2004 ceremony. Eighty Scientologists have received the "Freedom Medal" since the award's establishment in 1985, but Cruise is the only recipient of the Freedom Medal of Valor. Andrew Morton's Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography characterizes Cruise as the second most powerful individual within the organization.

The video first appeared on the Internet on Sunday, and disappeared after the footage was linked to from Gawker.com and The Huffington Post. Gawker.com posted a copy of the video Tuesday morning, and said that the video had "been passed around privately by reporters and writers investigating Cruise's ties to Scientology." Gawker.com noted that a smaller video clip which had previously been available on YouTube "is no longer available, most likely after the Church of Scientology sent in a copyright infringement notice." Gawker.com has stated that the video will stay up on its site, and has reprinted correspondence with Ava Paquette, an attorney with Moxon & Kobrin, a law firm representing the Church of Scientology. Nick Denton of Gawker.com commented on the posting of the video "It's newsworthy, and we will not be removing it."

Investigative journalist Mark Ebner is helping to post more than two hours of additional footage related to the Cruise video, and called it "the most unintentionally hilarious footage you've ever seen," and characterized it as "better than" when Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch during a May 23, 2005 appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and the South Park parody of Cruise in the controversial episode "Trapped in the Closet". Ebner appeared on The Today Show on Wednesday, and discussed the video's appearance on the Internet. In response, the Church of Scientology called Ebner a "fraud". Ebner told the New York Daily News that "These tapes were made for purposes of recruitment."

Attempts by the Church of Scientology to stop distribution of the video via the Internet "seem to have backfired spectacularly," according to The Press Association, and by Thursday the video was viewable on websites other than Gawker.com, including the New York Post, Independent Television News and the BBC. For websites based in Britain usage of the video is protected under copyright laws, specifically for reporting news and current affairs. Still other reports on the video linked to locations where it could be watched, including a report in The Times. Copies of the video were not available on Google Video on Thursday, but were still available on YouTube.

Attorney Mark Stephens of London-based firm Finers Stephens Innocent commented on the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove the video from the Internet: "The Scientologists, by taking action to enforce their copyrights, have made it a news story. The mistake was not to foresee that a news story has special protection in copyright law in reporting news and current events."


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Note on sourcing
Everything in the article is sourced to the sources listed in the Sources section. Wilhelm 00:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC).
 * Did the publishing of the book and the video leak really happen on the same day? The book was published on the 15th, but the article also says the video appeared on Sunday, which by my calculations was the 13th. It is not a vastly important discrepancy, but it is the very first sentence. --SVTCobra 01:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅, fixed, per the sources, thanks. Wilhelm 01:20, 17 January 2008 (UTC).

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It seems that this article should be titled something more like "Tom Cruise Scientology Award acceptance speech leaked", since the video has been confirmed to be of an acceptance speech, and not a promotional video. Wikidsoup 21:10, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That is not necessarily correct, as various segments of the video were reported as promotional/recruitment, and others as the award speech. Wilhelm 23:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC).
 * Though the Church claims copyright and has said it wants it off websites, it also says it is neither a "leak" nor a "secret video" and that it can be viewed at any of its churches . To me that means they are using it as a recruitment tool. --SVTCobra 01:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Wilhelm 02:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC).

New source, new developments, The New York Times
Andrew Adam Newman, "Scientology Writes; Gawker Rises", The New York Times, January 28, 2008
 * This is a new development in the story, burgeoning potential for follow-up piece. Will need a coupla additional sources about this in the story of developing potential for legal confrontation, and commentary on the controversy by intellectual property experts.  Cirt 06:02, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Tom Cruise’s Scientology video was “good for the faith” ???
Tom Cruise’s Scientology video was “good for the faith”, Showbiz Spy, January 28, 2008.
 * Weird. Cirt 13:43, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

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Comments? Wilhelm 00:48, 17 January 2008 (UTC).
 * Where's our pet Scientologist? No more edits from the Axiom 28 machine? --Brian McNeil / talk 09:39, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps he's busy what with all the PR ruckus and massive "entheta" in the news all over the world about this issue... Wilhelm 09:46, 17 January 2008 (UTC).
 * Oh, I see now what you meant by Axiom 28 machine - L. Ron Hubbard: "The formula of communication is cause, distance, effect, with intention, attention and duplication WITH UNDERSTANDING." Hehe, sort of like confuse, obfuscate, lie about your true intentions, etc. - all the better tactics to deal with "Suppressive Persons" - the term used by Tom Cruise in the video ...   Wilhelm 09:52, 17 January 2008 (UTC).

Why now?
I'm of the view that this video got leaked now to cover up the release of the Morton biography. —Preceding unsigned comment added by IBelieveInFairies (talk • contribs) 22:51, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * To cover up? What do you mean by that?  Wilhelm 23:14, 17 January 2008 (UTC).

scientology
scientology is  a  cult  and   cult  is  not  of  god. be careful  if  you  regect  god  he  will  respect  your  decision  and  there  will  be  total  seperation  from  you  and  god  forever. please dont  let  this  happen  to  yourself. god created  us  with  free  will  so  if  you  dont  want  to  be  with  him  he  will  respect  that. he loves  you  so  much  as  yourself  he  wants  you  to  live  with  him  forever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.215.186.96 (talk) 06:27, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comments. Wilhelm 07:08, 19 January 2008 (UTC).
 * Even though they're plum crazy212.137.27.116 12:52, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

who is your GOD?
Say it ain't so....when the end come's,and it's comming sooner than you expect. Are your l.ron hubbards,going to hit their chest and say"l.ron"! when GOD ask's..My Child, who did you serve? Did you serve ME? what would your response be?
 * Don't worry, god will say to you, "my son, the education system failed you; your grammar is appalling. Where do you buy your drumsticks?" --Brian McNeil / talk 21:00, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * A smiley face says it all: :-) --Meekel (TalkToMe) 21:02, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Run Katie, run! Don't keep living on Cruise Control !!!!
When you say your Baby Suri's prayers, at night who do you pray to?Do you let her know about "The ONE TRUE GOD"? Or the science fiction guy? enlighten me?

i would say unto those lost children of adam,who know not the true legacy of your GOD given inheritance or worth of self through Him who gave you breath. tell me how this man who is just a man that produces fiction books, that is "STORIES THAT HAVE NO BASIS IN RALITY".would cause you to say inside yourself hey!,i think im gonna take this story that is fake and make it into something that is real! to yourself!!! but is fake to the rest of the world and those who are not for a lack of a better word "sheep" who would follow blindly, a man who had the ability, in his own self to lead the people that are so weak in the mind, that they cannot lead themselfs or evan direct the way that their thoughts travel,you see Children and i say children because you know not of yourself or of the GOD of all.i ask you when the day of your death comes and you cry out to your false prophet, save me o elron hubbard! and there is only silence in the darkness with no chance of him ever hearing you or responding in any way,because o sheep he is also a child of God who was Created By GOD himself and not self made,no he will not come for you or rescue you from that wich builds up against you from the works of selfishness that you alone have the ability to change.And when GOD comes to judge the world and we all stad before the Mighty hand of The one true GOD, creator of the heavens and the earth YOU and me and all life that is and ever was.... comes unto you, and you see and feel your true self ,and the reason for it all becomes clear..and he asks you o child where was your faith? when i called you and you turned your back to me and said inside your self i will not follow the SON OF GOD but i will follow this book writer...where was your faith? and you will reply o Lord..Lord... here i am,and he will say,away from me for i know you not.Tell me will your science fiction writer come and lay a path for you unto the endless expance??or will the "anunakki"come down from nibiru and say,come all you who belived on elron hubbard come and live forever? for no man on earth can lead man but only to certan death unless that one leads by means of the truth of the Word of GOD to the way of GOD he will fail forever.you know that in the BIBLE it tells of those who from heaven to earth came, also in sumarian history,mesapotamian,babel,the quran the torah,and most of the ancient histories of the world explain the truth of what happend and the sons of GOD!!!!(not elron)came to see that the women of the earth were fair and they came and took for themselfs wifes of these beautiful women,and the offspring that they produced were giants!men of renoun abominations in the sight of the Lord because his Angels took for themselfs thought of lust and following the way of their own thoughts and desires,insted of following the will of GOD,so as all world history will show...the screams and lamentations of the children of God reached unto the gates of Heaven and GOD saw that wich his disobediant children had done and punished them by flooding the whole of the Earth and killing all those who supposedly are your "anunakki" but! anunakki in sumarian means SONS OF GOD,in hebrew the Nephilim wich also carries the same meaning. and after all of these were stripped clean of the earth the Word of GOD still remained with the chosen of his children who did not stray from the sight of GOD...and still resinates through the world as an endless echo that never quiets. and its not the aliens or elron hubbards voice that you hear is it?no not at all...because again he was a man who wrote science fiction wich again means NOT REAL.so that was wich you follow is also like the mans stories, VERRY VERRY FAKE with no basis in history ,except these brief blipp of yrars that your cult was created,was never taught learned of evean thought of these things that you have created in vanity,no never was there a race of peoples in all of the ancient world who would have backed up your ideas,but would probably killed you for being a wild blasphemer, because you see o sheep, all religions and evean false cults of the olden times to the present beleived in ONE TRUE GOD above all,the sumarians called him ahura-mazda wich means ALMIGHTY GOD. or to the Hebrews YAHWEH,ELOHIM,JAHOVA all meaning the same ALMIGHTY GOD,to the asians as you know was budda,etc but you can see that all have always honord the ONE GOD to be above all and the only way,evean cults who belived in multiple gods always revered one above them all.so tell me o sheep where in history does you false prophet stake his clame to your so called truth.???......THERE IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE ONE TRUE GOD,evean if you deny it within yourselfs and still choose to fallow this man who was nomore that a vain clut leader not unlike jim jones,charles manson,michael travessor,juan de jesus miranda,all false prophets who with vain desire to serv their own glory and not giving it to GOD,lead the weak of mind into the path of distruction. do you truly inside yourself belive that elron hubbards words will save you from this distruction? in revelations it says that in the last days on of this world before the end there will be many false prophets who will come to lead asyray the children of GOD, it says do not be fooled for they will speak with a sharp toung to beguile many. and sadly many will fall with them....so i ask you o children of God will you accept the same fate as those who lead you astray unto darkness and eternal seperation from GOD? or will you strenghten your heart and mind and save your own soul and the souls of your loved ones and accept GOD AS THE ULTIMATE TRUTH OF THE UNIVERSE and deny this false prophet.i say to you, you my brethren let the blind lead the blind,and open your eyes to what is the REAL TRUTH,follow JESUS THE CHRIST to everlasting life.not the man who would lead you to everlasting death.FREE YOUR MY BRETHREN!!!!!! May GOD bless your path and give you sight of the truth!!!! in JESUS mighty name amen!

 * Cool story bro. Adambro (talk) 22:54, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * My! God-botherer, meet the paragraph, Paragraph, meet one who has strayed from the path of coherent and cogent grammar. May the grammar-nazis have mercy on his soul. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:57, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

to he who is LOST
hello,I would ask you why are you concernd with my gramer and not the message within?are we mad that the message was too much for your mind to fathom?or maby its too deep! my sugestion do not judge others by the way they write but look beond that and seek the message,also get some floatys ,if its too deep for you to swim!!! sincerely ,mr.anti-gramer

seek and you shall find!
P.S. to those who think what i have written is a story... it is... its the story of life in this existance and the way it really is,and NOT MADE UP LIKE THE FALSE TRUTHS YOU SO DEARLY HOLD ON TO.so im glad you enjoy what i wrote,just know it is not my words, but the word of GOD,and literally the actual real hyroglyphical writings of our ansestors in the REAL WORLD from ancients themselvs,and not made up in the imaginations of a fiction writer.

but if you would like to discuss it more,im always listening                           ( Illuminatedsiccrecords@yahoo.com)

Tom Cruise
I think it's going to take more than one universe to accommodate Tom Cruise's EGO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.149.31 (talk) 05:07, 27 October 2009 (UTC)


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Now there will never be any decent MS CLR support for MySQL --82.11.228.4 01:09, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Will anyone at the regulators put a stop to this (Or delay it)? 68.39.174.238 22:52, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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"Facebook, LiveJournal, Google, as well as the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and the MediaWiki software that powers it."

This sentence seems a bit unclear to me. Is it implying that mediawiki always uses MySQL (which is not true i believe, I think it supports Postgress), or just generally does? Bawolff ☺☻ 02:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure that MySQL is the default, and the preferred, database for MediaWiki. And since Tim Starling just confirmed this for me in IRC, I am now sure that it is the default/preferred DB. —Zachary talk 04:25, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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Nearly two dozen people killed in bomb blast on bus in Sri Lanka
In Butthala, Sri Lanka, a bomb exploded on a civilian bus on Wednesday the 17th, killing at least twenty-three people and wounding a total of seventy. Approximately fifty people were travelling on the bus, the majority of whom are said to be school-children; the additional casualties were caused by those in proximity to the vehicle on detonation of the weapon. According to a spokesman from Sri Lanka's defence ministry, all of the wounded were civilians; the spokesman further added that terrorists are becoming desperate in the area where the attack took place thus changing their focus to attacks on civilian targets. No claim of responsibility has yet been made by any terrorist groups for the bombing, and Sri Lankan police are yet to place blame on any specific party; however, some unnamed sources within Sri Lanka have speculated that the rebel group known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, may have carried it out. This follows shortly after a cease-fire agreement between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government was terminated by Sri Lanka on the grounds that it had become meaningless.

Japanese detain two anti-whaling activists, deny abuse claims
Two Sea Shepherd Conservation Society anti-whaling activists were detained in the Southern Ocean on Wednesday the 15th at 0600 hours UTC by a whaling ship belonging to the Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research, a Government-operated organisation that undertakes limited whaling activities ostensibly for the purposes of conducting scientific research. Japan's scientific whaling activities have been under severe criticism by activists such as those from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, who state that such whaling is illegal and is in fact for commercial purposes. The activists, who were on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's vessel Steve Irwin, appear to have attempted to board the Yushin Maru No. 2, claiming that they were attempting to deliver a letter to the Japanese whalers asking them to leave the Antarctic. They admit, however, to having thrown stink bombs onto her decks. The two men are currently under detention by Japanese authorities, who state that they will release the men only if the activist organisation agrees to conduct no further protests. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society claims that their men were subjected to severe physical abuse at the hands of the Japanese authorities, including being strapped to a mast in extremely cold conditions; a Japanese spokesperson strongly denies these allegations. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has stated that they are not prepared to negotiate with the Japanese authorities and demand unconditional release of their personnel.

George Bush completes his Middle East tour
United States president George W. Bush completed his tour of the Middle East, in which he sought to encourage Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak demonstrated endorsement for Mr. Bush's claimed cause, saying that he supports Israel's efforts to reach agreement on the creation of an independent Palestinian state. Bush, speaking at a joint apparance in front of reporters at the end of consultations between himself and Mubarak, expressed his optimism that an agreement can be reached through the support of both the Israeli and Palestinian governments towards a two-state solution, and further affirmed his endorsement to the goal that the peace process will be completed by the end of the year. Bush's tour continued amid demonstrations and angry press coverage throughout Egypt, describing this reaction as a vivid display of freedom of speech in Egypt.

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Dam removal proposal for Klamath River

January 17, 2008

A proposal was made to remove four hydroelectric power generating dams across the Klamath River in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Intended to improve the habitat and range of salmon, the project requires agreements with the dams’ owner PacifiCorp and several federal government agencies. A coalition of Native American tribal leaders, fishermen, farmers, various governmental agencies, and environmental groups developed the proposal after two-years of negotiations.

The project would cost an estimated $1 billion to complete, and would be the largest project of its kind in U.S. history. The earliest dam removal would begin is 2015.

WaterWatch, Oregon Wild, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, and some farmers oppose the proposed agreement for a variety of reasons.

If implemented the removal would allow for 300 more miles of river habitat for spawning salmon. It would also include a new tribal reservation covering 90,000 acres for the Klamath Tribe. Funding has yet to be allocated for the entire project that includes habitat restoration in addition to the removal of the dams.

Additionally, it has yet to be determined who would pay for the actual demolition of the dams owned by PacifiCorp. Discussions that led to this proposal began in 2004 after PacifiCorp applied to renew its power generating licenses for its dams on the river.

Other dam removal initiatives in the Pacific Northwest

 * Bull Run Hydroelectric Project, near Portland, Oregon, removed in 2007–2008
 * Condit Dam, on the White Salmon River. Owner Pacificorp intends to remove, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must approve.
 * Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower Monumental, and Ice Harbor dams of the lower Snake River, targeted for removal by environmental groups since the late 1990s.

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Cricket: Australia vs India 3rd test - Day 2

January 17, 2008

Thursday was the second day of play in the third test between Australia and India at the WACA, Perth, Australia.

India resumed their first innings at 6/297. Australia took the remaining four wickets before the lunch break. Mahendra Singh Dhoni (19) and Irfan Pathan (28) both fell lbw in successive overs. India reached 330 all out with the loss of Anil Kumble for one run and R. P. Singh for a duck.

Australia struggled early on as Irfan Pathan dismissed both Australian openers for less than ten runs each and Michael Hussey was caught behind without scoring. At lunch, Australia were 3/22. The next session, Australia played well, despite losing Ricky Ponting (20) and Michael Clarke (23), coming to the tea break with a score of 5/148. However, in the last session of the day India took five wickets, sending Australia all out with a score of 212 after fifty overs. Andrew Symonds was Australia's top scorer with 66 runs, while Adam Gilchrist made 55. R. P. Singh took four wickets for India.

In reply, India are 1/52 at stumps having lost Wasim Jaffer for 11 runs just before the close of play.


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Talk:Japanese detain two anti-whaling activists, deny abuse claims

I already knew about the story, so I knew what it was referring to. But if you didn't, the headline gives you no idea that it was about Japanese whalers vs. anti-whaling protesters. It's the thing that makes this story interesting. How about adding the word whalers or anti-whaling somewhere in the headline? -- 203.57.68.20 10:27, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for the idea. -Apartmento2 15:29, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I disagree with Bcn22 edit to article
I don't want to get into a edit war so I won't revert. I will discuss and reach a consensus.

Although I understand that the article I wrote a significant portion of may not be of the highest quality of journalism so it isn't the best read.

However, Bcn22's edit chops out significant amounts of information, including:

 * 1) Accusations that Sea Shepherd attacked the Yushin Maru with butyric acid, as rancid butter, and Sea Shepherd's confirmation.
 * 2) Accusations that Sea Shepherd attempted to entangle the screw of the vessel.
 * 3) A sentence about a police report to the Australian Federal Police.
 * 4) Whalers offering a conditional release.
 * 5) Sea Shepherd refusing and saying the Japanese are acting like terrorists.
 * 6) A whole bunch of quotes that would make the article more comprehensive and add more human aspect promotion.

I propose the article be reverted to the |10:34, 17 January 2008 203.57.68.20 version. -Apartmento2 15:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Apartmento2, the point I wish to make here is that this is supposed to be a piece of journalism not an academic article. Sometimes a cold, detached eye is needed to remove the unnceccessary "bulk" from the piece. That´s what subeditors do, without them our newspapers would look very different!

I chopped your article cos I thought it was too wordy and confusing with a lot of "he said, she said", and a lot of irrelevent information was present such as the nautical position of the ship. Also I felt there was too much use of Sea Shepherd as a source - remember that Sea Shepard has a vested interest in dramatising the event to gain maximum publicity, and it´s the role of the journalist to be sceptical about things like that.

Could you try to make a newer version of my edit, incorporating any important facts you think I have omitted. (Facts that the reader really needs to know). Thanks! Bcn22.Bcn22 11:07, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

 * 'K sounds reasonable.

 * On the Sea Shepherd thing, I mostly quoted from two groups, the whalers/researchers and Sea Shepherd because they're the only people that matter most and care most. In Muslim world condemns Pope's criticism of Islam, they're are only really two types of people quoted, Muslims and the Christians. I only used Sea Shepherd as a source for their views and allegations plus the nautical position of the incident. I cited a the press release of the IRC as well and even included photos from the media kit.

 * In my experience he said, she said is very good in helping give a clearer and more comprehensive view and providing NPOV.

 * Wikinews is not a paper so space is virtually unlimited and very cheap but it needs to be useful for the reader and I agree that your edit has made it easier for the reader to read.

 * I'll see what I can do. Your edits were in good faith. Thanks for responding and provided your reasons.-Apartmento2 12:53, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Cheers, I look forward to the new version ;-) Bcn22 13:10, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


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Andy Strangeway has asked me to let you know that the date 3rd September is wrong - this challenge was completed on 29th August 2007: see 81.154.172.33 12:41, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Please also link to  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.172.33 (talk) 12:43, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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British Airways flight lands short of runway at London Heathrow Airport

January 17, 2008

A British Airways flight from Beijing to London with 152 people on board has landed short of the runway at Heathow airport near London. One hundred and thirty six passengers and sixteen crew have been evacuated from the plane and thirteen people are reported to have sustained minor injuries.

Reports suggest that the cause of the incident was a "total loss of power and avionics" in the plane, meaning that the pilot had to glide the plane towards the runway area.

Flight BA038 from Beijing to Heathrow, a twin-engined Boeing 777-236ER, carried out an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport 12.42 p.m. local time, according to a Heathrow airport statement.

The incident has delayed the flight carrying UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is flying to Beijing today on a visit to China and India.

Witnesses said the plane flew low on its approach, touched down on grass short of the runway and came to a halt on its belly at the edge of the runway. Passengers were quickly evacuated by emergency chutes as emergency vehicles surrounded the plane. The plane's undercarriage broke off during the landing and both wings as well as the starboard engine are badly damaged.

In a press statement, BA said it is "very proud" of the way its staff - three flight crew and thirteen cabin crew - safely evacuated passengers with only six minor injuries resulting.

The southern runway has been closed for operations and has resulted in all European short haul flights from Terminals 1, 2 and 3 being cancelled. Passengers travelling by Heathrow have been advised to check their flight status before arriving at the airport.


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I think this accident happened by pilot error

BBC News 24 are now [15:35] reporting that the plane had lost all power, so pilot error seems unlikely. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.96.239.229 (talk) 15:36, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Evidence of fire? Is there any evidence of fire, I would expect so with the damage to the engines after a belly flop like that and wings torn off. Need to find eye witness accounts from people on board. If there was no fire, or spilt Aviation fuel then it could simply have run completely out of fuel on its final approach. That would be human error --Zven 18:53, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

 * For fuel, the aircraft systems would have given warning long enough before fuel ran out. So probably not likely to be out of fuel. From what I have read and seen there is no information about fire, however it is hard to be sure from the outside pictures. Maybe the aircraft hit a flock of birds? However we won't *know* until the crash investigation releases their report. --83.181.55.156 20:37, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Yes, systems give warning, however errors can occur. There are many real life instances of Fuel starvation. I am not saying that this happened, only interested if it could be a cause. --Zven 00:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Looking at that images coming through, believe me, if there was fire we would know. It would be unmissably damaged by it. I've some degree of knowledge on this section of aviation (I won't pretend to be an expert) and I must say, pending more information I'm with Zven on this one: a possible case of fuel starvation. These often - but not nescescarily - have a pilot error factor to them, but it is mainly due to another problem - often a maintenance issue, sometimes a design flaw. I wonder what the service records say for the pst few months? Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 07:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Reverse Thrust
Reading different sources, there are many eyewitness reports that the engine noise actually increased, contrary to reports of loss of power and avionics. Also, with its fly-by-wire technology, without power and avionics: how on earth would the pilot have any control of the aircraft.

Perhaps reverse thrust was activated, which would cause an increase of noise, and a huge loss of speed. —210.48.109.206 23:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


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Watched live TV feed on BBC for some facts, inc the phone no and the passenger amounts. --Mark Talk to me 14:52, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Injury count
Seems like the injury count has changed, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7194086.stm now says thirteen people. Someone should update the page. --83.181.55.156 19:03, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * And now there are 19, according to same page --83.181.55.156 19:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Same article now quotes 18, I've updated it accordingly Pythonx 14:44, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ive undone this change as the article is now old and as wikinews articles are not works in progress these changes have been undone. thanks --Mark Talk to me 18:53, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


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UN appeals for US$42 million to assist victims of Kenya violence

January 17, 2008

The United Nations has launched an appeal for US$42 million to assist victims of post-election violence in Kenya.

U.N. Chief of Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, John Holmes, says the funds are urgently needed to provide humanitarian and early-recovery assistance over the next six months to approximately 500,000 people who have been affected by the violence that erupted in late December. The United Nations estimates that about half those affected have been internally displaced.

About two dozen donor countries from Europe and elsewhere have been asked to help. The money will go to support 63 U.N. and non-governmental organizations who intend to deliver food aid, protection, shelter, water and sanitation and disease outbreak prevention. The largest amount of the appeal - ten million dollars - is intended to be allocated to food aid.

The European Union has said it may temporarily stop giving aid to Kenya unless the issues surrounding the election are resolved.

Holmes says the U.N. hopes the situation in Kenya normalizes soon.

"What we want is a return to normality, a political solution as soon as possible, and also as I said last week, every effort to be made by all the leaders concerned - political, religious, whoever they may be - to prevent violence, to extend protection to civilians of all kinds, and to stop any kind of downward spiral of ethnic or other violence which may be very difficult to reverse once its stopped," said John Holmes.

Many parts of Kenya have seen violence following the announcement of the December 27 presidential election results. More than 600 people are believed to have been killed in post-election violence, a quarter of a million have been driven from their homes and another 6,000 have fled to neighboring Uganda.


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Four paparazzi members arrested after chasing Britney Spears' car

January 17, 2008 Four male members of the paparazzi were arrested and charged on Wednesday with reckless driving in Mission Hills, California after following Britney Spears back to her mansion. At least four others were also stopped by police, but were not arrested.

According to reports, police witnessed the entire incident saying that a fleet of paparazzi were following Spears at a high rate of speed around 11:20 p.m. PST (UTC-8). They also say they followed her too closely and made unsafe lane changes in order to follow her. Police also say that at least one of cars following Spears, who was driving her car, tried to run her off the road, but she was not able to identify the vehicle or the occupants.

Spears was also stopped by police. They are reported to have verified her identity, and released her. TMZ.com reports that police were checking to see if her license was valid, and was surprised that it was. Spears was not charged with anything and despite the paparazzis' recklessness, Spears did not want the men arrested.

"Britney Spears was part of the group, but was not driving recklessly," said spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department, Sara Faden.


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Proposed Spanish national anthem lyrics withdrawn due to controversy

January 18, 2008

The Spanish people will have to wait a little longer before they can sing to their national anthem.

La Marcha Real (The Royal March) has been wordless since its conception in 1761, but on June 5, 2007, Alejandro Blanco, the president of the Spanish Olympic Committee, advocated the creation of lyrics to La Marcha Real.

"The lyrics have generated controversy and, in some cases, rejection. Spain is a country with cheerful people who sing at any opportunity, so why shouldn’t they be able to sing the words of a national anthem?," stated Blanco.

Just half a year later, the proposed lyrics were withdrawn being due to criticism that it represents Spain's right-wing past, not its cultural diversity.

Among the reasons for it being withdrawn include the first phrase of each stanza, "Viva España!" (Long live Spain!), which refers to a rallying cry by the late dictator General Francisco Franco. It also said that Spaniards should love the "fatherland." Blanco also stated that the lyrics "lacked consensus."

"I have to accept reality, but this does not mean I no longer believe in the idea," added Blanco.

Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, a supporter of giving La Marcha Real lyrics, was due to be the first person to sing the Spanish national anthem at the Olympic Committee dinner on January 21.


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Cricket: India defeats Australia by 72 runs in third test

January 20, 2008

India defeated Australia by 72 runs in the third test at the WACA, Perth, Australia yesterday.

India resumed their second innings on 1/52 at the beginning of the third day. Virender Sehwag (43) was bowled by Stuart Clark, and Rahul Dravid was caught behind off Brett Lee in the following over, having scored just three runs. Lee also dismissed Sachin Tendulkar lbw for 13 runs while Sourav Ganguly was caught by Michael Clarke at first slip for a duck. India reached 5/158 by the lunch break.

Irfan Pathan scored 46 runs before he was caught by Ricky Ponting, leaving India on 6/160. However V. V. S. Laxman (79) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (38) shared a 75-run partnership to bring India to 8/245 at tea. Laxman and R. P. Singh (30) shared a partnership of 51 runs before India were bowled all out for 294 runs, a lead of 413. Stuart Clark was the pick of the Australian bowlers, taking 4/61.

Australia played fifteen overs of their second innings on the third day, but were reduced to 2/43 after Irfan Pathan removed both opening batsmen. At the close of play Australia were 2/65.

Resuming their final innings on day four, Australia needed a further 348 runs to win. Ricky Ponting was the only batsman to be dismissed in the morning session, scoring 45 runs and sharing 74 with Michael Hussey. Hussey went on to make 46 before being dismissed lbw by R. P. Singh. Despite an innings of 81 from Michael Clarke and 50 from Mitchell Johnson, Australia were bowled out for 340 runs, 73 runs short of India's total.

Australia lead the four match Test series 2-1, with the final Test to be played in Adelaide starting on 24 January.


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Who rejected?
I know nothing of the issue but who rejected it and how? I don't understand. -Apartmento2 04:23, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Considering here, the fact that it is the Spanish national anthem, and common sense, I'd say the rejecters are the government and the Spanish Olympic Committee. Mouse among men 04:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No one rejected them. The lyrics were withdrawn. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 04:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I changed some phrasing. "One-half year later" is an odd (regional colloquial?) way of saying six months, while "withdrawn for the time being" is not just clumsy, it's wrong. The controversial lyrics are dead, they'll either substitute with safer lyrics or drop the whole thing as a bad idea. -- 203.57.68.20 15:21, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


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Data from 650,000 credit card holders lost in US

January 18, 2008

Information on 650,000 credit card holders held by United States retail stores is reported to be lost. The lost data includes 150,000 social security numbers.

Card holder data from J.C. Penney and other major retailing outlets was being stored on a backup computer tape owned by GE Consumer Finance and went missing in October. Theft or foul play is not believed to be involved.

The tape's last known whereabouts was a storage facility operated by Iron Mountain Incorporated. There are no records of the tape being signed out, but no one is able to locate it. The location of the facility is not yet known.

None of the accounts have been compromised and GE says that the tape does not contain enough information on one individual to open another card account. GE will offer all of those affected 12 months of free credit monitoring.

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Seems to me that the 2007 submissions are all pretty lame. And doesn't the "Support Group" situation violate the Darwin Award criteria of the main character not injuring others? 151.213.183.250 07:38, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

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Chess master Bobby Fischer dead at 64

January 18, 2008

Dubbed as one of the world's greatest chess players of all-time, Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64 from, according to his spokesman Gardar Sverrisson. He died in Iceland at a hospital in.

Fischer is most known for beating his opponent from the then  in 1972, to become the first and so far only American world champion chess player. He became a in August of 1958 at the young age of 15.

Fischer was also a fugitive of the U.S. after violating the terms of sanctions by going to an island of the former country of  in 1992 to play Spassky in a rematch, and won. He was detained in Japan for nine months through 2004 and 2005, accused of trying to leave the country on a revoked U.S. passport. After his detainment he was granted Icelandic citizenship and moved to the country in 2005, instead of being deported to the U.S. by the Japanese government.

"[Fischer was] the pioneer, some would say the founder, of professional chess. [His death is] very sad news," said Garry Kasparov, a former world champion of chess.

Fisher was born on March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois.

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Lordi added to billing of Serbia's Castle Festival

January 18, 2008

Finnish theatrical hard rock band Lordi have been added to the billing of the upcoming Castle Festival in Serbia.

The event will take place at the Smederevo Fortress in Smederevo across July 1-5. Over 70 bands will perform at the festival.

Festival organisers released a statement saying “Lordi is very popular in Serbia amongst heavy metal bands. They revolutionised Eurovision with their rock song”. This refers to Lordi's victory at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, at which their song Hard Rock Hallelujah scored a record 292 points and gave Finland their first win at the contest.

The bands scheduled span a wide range of rock and metal genres. Amongst the other acts already confirmed to appear are Judas Priest, Helloween, Soilwork, Ensiferum, At The Gates, Avantasia, Sodom, Dismember, Saturnus, Manticora and Sybreed.


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Time not always kind
Wow, in that picture he looks at least 15 years older. 151.213.183.250 22:06, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Shame! Shame! Shame!
It is such a shame that people with so much less brains have the power over the geniuses like Robert Fischer. He will be remembered for long time and those who were after him are nobodies already.

Justice is the only deity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.231.16.194 (talk) 22:29, 4 July 2008 (UTC)


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Users insert virus source code into Wikipedia pages

January 19, 2008 In an exclusive report, Wikinews has learned that on Wednesday two users, one anonymous and the other only known as MODX, added code on the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia for a computer virus known as the LoveLetter or ILOVEYOU virus.

The users inserted the VBScript code into various pages including the Wikipedia Sandbox, a page used for editorial testing. This was relatively harmless, as the code could not be activated despite causing some antivirus software to issue an alert.

A Wikipedia administrator began blocking the users and reverting their edits. "I went further and deleted the contributions of these editors where I could in the hopes of preventing follow-up attacks, copycat actions, and random editors stumbling into viral traps whilst walking through a page history", said Scientizzle, the administrator who found the code and attempted to clean up the additions.

However, a major problem arose when he tried to delete the edits from the sandbox. This involves deleting the entire page and restoring good revisions, but the sandbox has such a "massive revision history" that this caused Wikipedia's servers to overload for half an hour, locking countless users out of editing the encyclopedia.

"My action caused the site to come to a screeching halt for half an hour and filled my [user discussion page] page with 'wikitrout'," added Scientizzle jokingly.

Developers for Wikimedia (the parent foundation of Wikipedia and its sister projects) quickly implemented a check on such massive deletions to prevent such an event from occurring again. Brion Vibber, Wikimedia's Chief Technical Officer, added restrictions on the deletion of any page with more than 5000 revisions.

"A couple times a year somebody does something like trying to delete the Wikipedia:Sandbox, which reaaalllly bogs down the server due to the large number of revisions. While there are warnings about this, I'm hacking in some limits which will restrict such deletions to keep the system from falling over accidentally," said Vibber on a Wikipedia community discussion page.

Scientizzle was advised that the edits should have been removed via oversight. Oversight is the process of deleting edits from public view, usually reserved for non-public personal information and libel, but also used for selective deletion of revisions on pages with extremely long edit histories. Only a few administrators have access to the process.

"I was advised that oversight was a better option for removing contributions on huge pages and, as such, contacted the oversight mailing list to request the complete deletion of all contributions by these users," added Scientizzle.

The ILOVEYOU virus or worm started in the Philippines on May 4, 2000 in e-mails titled 'I Love You'. Over the course of a single working day it spread across the entire globe, traveling to Hong Kong, to Europe, and then the United States. At least 10% of the world's computers that had Internet access were infected with the virus. The virus overwrote files on computers with copies of itself, including system files and multimedia.