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Wikinews:Briefs/August 3, 2010

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Today on Wikinews : A suicide bomber kills five Afghan children; California Representative Maxine Waters is charged with violating ethics rules; the FBI asks the Wikimedia Foundation to remove its seal from our websites and, in history, the Church Committee begins hearings on a secret US government program that involved giving unsuspecting citizens LSD.

Today is Tuesday, August 03, 2010. I'm Dan Harlow and this is Wikinews.

Suicide bomber kills five Afghan children (0:42)
Five children were killed by a suicide car bomb in the Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan on Monday. Officials say the suicide bomber was trying to attack the governor of the Dand district, Ahmadullah Nazak.

Nazak, who was unharmed, later recalled "I dropped down. Then I heard a second explosion. It hit our car, but it didn't injure me".

There have not been any claims of responsibility for this bombing. Assassinations and attempts have become more common this year in Kandahar, and between January and April, at least 27 government officials or foreign contractors have been killed.

In other areas of Afghanistan there have been similar incidents. A blast in Nangarhar province hit the car of a senior adviser to President Hamid Karzai. Six people, including Wahidullah Sabawoon, the adviser, were injured in the blast. Sabawoon's injuries were "not critical", according to spokesperson Ahmad Zia Abdulzai.

Waters on trial for House ethics charges (1:39)
A United States House of Representatives ethics panel has charged Representative Maxine Waters (D-California) with violating unspecified ethics rules, making her the second Democrat in a week to be charged with ethical violations.

Since 2008, the Office of Congressional Ethics has investigated Waters for requesting a meeting with former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson. Although the meeting was supposed to be about minority-owned banks, the actual conversation focused on one bank, OneUnited. Water's husband, Sidney Williams, had been a stock-holder and board member in the bank at the time.

OneUnited later received US$12 million in bailout funds, and an unnamed member of Congress said that Waters had been unsure how to deal with OneUnited, which had been near collapse, "because Sidney's been on the board."

A statement from the panel does not disclose when it will state the charges or say how many there are.

Waters released a statement stating "I have not violated any House rules. Therefore, I simply will not be forced to admit to something I did not do and instead have chosen to respond to charges made by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in a public hearing."

She also vowed to take the case to a public trial, and also said "The record will clearly show that in advocating on behalf of minority banks neither my office nor I benefited in any way, engaged in improper action or influenced anyone."

Waters has represented her district in South Central Los Angeles, California for 20 years.

This incident comes just five days after another House Democrat, Charlie Rangel of New York was charged with thirteen ethics violations. Rangel's charges range from tax evasion to donations he solicited for an education center bearing his name.

Another politican with ethics troubles awaits his fate as

Illinois jurors begin fifth day of deliberations in Blagojevich corruption trial (3:26)
jurors in the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial began their fifth day of deliberations Tuesday morning, having sent no notes to the judge at all yesterday. Notes they sent out last week, however, suggest that the discussions could take much longer.

The jury has sent two notes to US District Judge James B. Zagel since deliberations began last Wednesday. The first came on Thursday, when the jury requested a transcript of one of the prosecution's closing arguments. Zagel refused, saying that closing arguments are not evidence.

The second note came on Friday, when the foreman wrote "Is it permissible to obtain the transcript of the testimony? It would be helpful." Zagel interpreted the request as saying that the jury wanted transcripts of the testimony of every single witness in the trial. Zagel again declined the request because it was not practical to do so; about 30 witnesses testified in this case, and the transcripts have not yet been prepared. Zagel instead offered to consider requests for transcripts of testimony from "specific identified witnesses", but said that he would warn the jury that such requests could take some time to fulfill.

Defense attorney Sheldon Sorosky objected to this plan, saying that "the government will have the benefit of presenting its case a whole second time." Zagel said in reply that he would still consider each of the jury's requests individually.

Such a request, however, suggests that the jury intends to conduct a lengthy review of the case. The six male and six female jurors continued their deliberations on Monday without sending any further notes to the judge.

Blagojevich is charged with trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat that had been vacated by Barack Obama when he won the 2008 presidential election, among other crimes. Robert Blagojevich, Rod's brother and co-defendant in the case, testified that Rod was trying to manipulate the political situation to his advantage, but emphasized that he engaged in nothing illegal. According to some sources, Blagojevich was interested in leading the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines (6:18)
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has asked the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), host of Wikinews and its sister projects, to take down its image of the FBI seal from its websites. However, the WMF declined, saying that FBI lawyers had misinterpreted the relevant federal law.

In a letter dated July 22, 2010, David C. Larson, Deputy General Counsel of the FBI demanded that the WMF remove the seal from its websites within fourteen days, claiming that "it facilitates both deliberate and unwitting violations of these restrictions by Wikipedia users."

Larson quoted a section of US law detailing the proper use of the seal and went on to say that use of the FBI seal may be authorized only by the director of the FBI; the FBI director has not given such permission to WMF.

The WMF, represented by General Counsel Mike Godwin, responded, saying in a letter dated July 30, that Larson's interpretation "is both idiosyncratic (made especially so by your strategic redaction of important language) and, more importantly, incorrect."

Godwin said that "while we appreciate your desire to revise the statute to reflect your expansive vision of it, the fact is that we must work with the actual language of the statute, not the aspirational version" Larson provided. According to the relevant case law, it "was intended to protect the public against the use of a recognizable assertion of authority with intent to deceive."

Godwin asserted that the use of the FBI seal by the WMF and its projects do not fall under the purview of that law.

The websites of the Wikimedia Foundation are filled with user-generated text, pictures, and other materials, uploaded and curated by independent, often anonymous, volunteers, who change the websites minute by minute. The most well-known sites are the Wikipedias, encyclopedias with over 13 million articles in hundreds of languages. However, the foundation also hosts an image and media library, dictionaries, the Wikinews news websites, book websites and many other educational collaborations.

Cindy Cohn, legal director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (where Godwin was once staff counsel), said that the WMF's constitutional right to free expression allows it to use the FBI seal. "I have to believe the FBI has better things to do than this," she said. The reason for the FBI's request is unknown, as the FBI seal is published on many other websites, including Encyclopedia Britannica.

In a bit of trivia, Mike Godwin is also well known for the famous internet discussion rule known as Godwin's Law which states "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." Godwin believes the ubiquity of such comparisons trivializes the Holocaust.

Emergency spacewalks planned to fix International Space Station (9:13)
NASA is scrambling to solidify plans to fix the broken down cooling systems on the International Space Station during two spacewalks, currently planned for Friday and Monday. The systems broke down late Saturday July 31, triggering alarms that woke the six astronauts (three Russian and three American) currently on board the station. NASA's flight controller said the astronauts are not in any danger, but that science experiments are on hold until the problem can be fixed.

Michael Suffredini, a manager for the International Space Station Program, had this to say about the incident:

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The first spacewalk is set to begin Friday at 6:55 a.m. EDT, NASA officials said. The two planned spacewalks will be conducted by astronauts Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. They will replace an ammonia pump module, which shut down Saturday. The pump's failure prompted the astronauts to shut down several other systems as well. The spare pump had been delivered to the station in July 2006, during STS-121.

Normally, major repair spacewalks take weeks of preparation. Fortunately an unrelated spacewalk had already been planned for this Thursday, which would have been conducted by Wheelock and Dyson, so the space suits and equipment are ready to go. NASA decided late Monday evening that the spacewalk would be postponed to Friday to allow for more preparation.

In October 2010 the space station is expected to break the record for the longest continuously inhabited space station, a record currently held by Mir.

In other space related news,

Northern lights may appear across Canada and northern U.S. late Tuesday night (11:17)
forecasters predict that the northern lights could be visible to the naked eye late tonight and early tomorrow morning across Canada, northern parts of the U.S., and possibly the United Kingdom.

Solar storms caused a large ejection of plasma from the Sun's surface on Sunday, and the plasma is heading directly towards Earth. The plasma, a cloud of rapidly moving hydrogen gas atoms and subatomic particles, is expected to reach us late Tuesday. The plasma will interact with the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere, which will cause northern lights, or aurora borealis, to be visible much further south than is usual. Northern lights usually appear as green or red rivers of lights across the sky.

"It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time" said astronomer Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The eruption was detected by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which was launched in February 2010, and is currently orbiting the Earth.

The Sun goes through approximately eleven-year long activity cycles, with the last maximum occurring in 2001. Sunday's eruption is a sign that the many years of inactivity is over, and the Sun is heading towards another maximum.

Australian rules football: 2010 Gippsland Football League round 16 split round week one (12:30)
Two games of round 16 of the Gippsland Football League split the round over the weekend. On Saturday, Sale defeated Moe by 75 points, while on Sunday, Warragul lost to Drouin.

The split round will be completed next weekend with Leongatha traveling to Maffra and Morwell traveling to Wonthaggi. Traralgon has the bye.

The preliminary ladder has, in order, Maffra on top followed by Traralgon, Morwell, Drouin and Leongatha in the the top five. Moe and Sale need to win both of their remaining games and have other results go their way to make the finals. Wonthaggi and Warragul cannot make the finals.

On this day in history (13:12)

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Though the project is still shrouded in mystery, on this day in history in 1977 the Church Committee began its hearing on the illegal US Central Intelligence Agencies human research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence and known by its codename MKULTRA.

This official U.S. government program began in the early 1950s and continued through the late 1960s. The program used U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects to study the use of many types of drugs, as well as other methods, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function.

The project actually began in 1945 when the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip. Operation Paperclip was a program to recruit former Nazi scientists, some of whom had studied torture and brainwashing, and several had just been identified and prosecuted as war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials.

Several secret U.S. government projects grew out of Operation Paperclip and their purpose was to study mind-control, interrogation, behavior modification and related topics.

Headed by Sidney Gottlieb, the MKULTRA project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Dulles on April 13, 1953, largely in response to Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind-control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea. The CIA wanted to use similar methods on their own captives and was also interested in being able to manipulate foreign leaders with such techniques, and would later invent several schemes to drug Fidel Castro.

Experiments were often conducted without the subjects' knowledge or consent. In some cases, academic researchers being funded through grants from CIA front organizations were unaware that their work was being used for these purposes. To fund the project, a secretive arrangement granted the MKULTRA program a percentage of the CIA budget. The MKULTRA director was granted six percent of the CIA operating budget in 1953, without oversight or accounting and an estimated $10 million or more was spent.

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Yet because most MKULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of then CIA Director Richard Helms, it has been difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a complete understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research sub-projects sponsored by MKULTRA and related CIA programs.

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The few remaining CIA documents suggest that "chemical, biological and radiological" means were investigated for the purpose of mind control as part of MKULTRA. These means included the testing of hypnotic drugs such as temazepam, heroin, mescaline, and in one technique investigated, a patient was connected to a barbiturate IV in one arm and an amphetamine IV into the other. The barbiturates were released into the person first, and as soon as the person began to fall asleep, the amphetamines were released. The person would then begin babbling incoherently, and it was sometimes possible to ask questions and get useful answers.

However, the use of LSD came to dominate many of MKULTRA's programs. Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions. LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject's knowledge or informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after World War II.

Efforts to "recruit" subjects were often illegal, even though actual use of LSD was legal in the United States until October 6, 1966. In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels in San Francisco, CA to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, the brothels were equipped with two-way mirrors, and the sessions were filmed for later viewing and study.

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In Canada, when the CIA recruited Scottish psychiatrist and former member of the Nuremberg medical tribunals of 1946–47, Donald Ewen Cameron, the program experimented with various paralytic drugs as well as electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power as well as putting subjects into a drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. The experiments were typically carried out on patients who were being treated for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression, yet many of them suffered permanently from his actions.

Given the CIA's purposeful destruction of most records, its failure to follow informed consent protocols with thousands of participants, the uncontrolled nature of the experiments, and the lack of follow-up data, the full impact of MKULTRA experiments, including deaths, will never be known. However, several known deaths have been associated with Project MKULTRA, most notably that of Frank Olson.

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Olson, a United States Army biochemist and biological weapons researcher, was given LSD without his knowledge or consent in November, 1953 and died under suspicious circumstances a week later when Olson exited a hotel window and fell thirteen stories to his death.

Olson's death was described as a suicide that occurred during a severe psychotic episode, possibly exacerbated by the LSD due to his already-diagnosed suicidal tendencies. The Olson family, however, disputed the official version of events. They maintained that Frank Olson was murdered because, especially in the aftermath of his LSD experience, he had become a security risk who might divulge state secrets associated with highly-classified CIA programs, many of which he had direct personal knowledge.

In 1975, Olson's family received a $750,000 settlement from the U.S. government and formal apologies from President Gerald Ford and CIA Director William Colby and later forensic evidence supported the family when Olson's body was exhumed in 1994. A medical examiner termed Olson's death a "homicide" due to cranial injuries indicating Olson had been knocked unconscious before he exited the window.

A considerable amount of credible circumstantial evidence suggests that Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, participated in CIA-sponsored MKULTRA experiments conducted at Harvard University from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1962. Beginning at the age of sixteen, Kaczynski participated along with twenty-one other undergraduate students in the Harvard experiments, which have been described as "disturbing" and "ethically indefensible."

In all, forty-four American colleges or universities, 15 research foundations or chemical or pharmaceutical companies and the like including Sandoz (currently Novartis) and Eli Lilly & Co., 12 hospitals or clinics (in addition to those associated with universities), and three prisons are known to have participated in project MKULTRA.

The project also plays a part in many conspiracy theories given its nature and the destruction of most records. Some believe the Jonestown mass suicide was thought to be a test site for MKULTRA experiments and others believe Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Robert Kennedy, was under the influence of CIA directed hypnotic mind conrtol when he fired his weapon.

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Although the CIA insists that MKULTRA-type experiments have been abandoned, 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MKULTRA was abandoned a "cover story" even though President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued an Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited "experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with informed consent." Subsequent orders by Presidents Carter and Reagan expanded the directive to apply to any human experimentation.

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Nine dead in shooting rampage at Connecticut beer warehouse

August 4, 2010

A, Connecticut beer driver caught stealing from the warehouse he works for has killed nine people, including himself, after he resigned and went on a shooting rampage. The man, whose name is Omar Thornton, went on his killing spree after being showed video evidence of him stealing beer from Hartford Distributors Inc, a wholesaler of beverages.

Company Vice President Steve Hollander said that Thornton "was cool and calm. He didn't yell. He was cold as ice. He didn't protest when we were meeting with him to show him the video of him stealing. He didn't contest it. He didn't complain. He didn't argue. He didn't admit or deny anything. He just agreed to resign. And then he just unexplainably pulled out his gun and started blasting." Hollander also stated that the 34 year-old man had guns hidden away in his lunch box, and said that two people around him were killed. Hollander, however, was only injured and said "By just the grace of God, I don't know how he missed me." Another employee said "people were pleading with him to put the gun down and to stop, but he was in his own world at that point."

Thornton opened fire around 7:00 am local time (11:00 UTC). During a phone call, in which his mother pleaded with the gunman not to commit suicide, he said that "[he] killed the five racists that was there that was bothering me. The cops are going to come in so I am going to take care of myself," according to his uncle Will Holliday.


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Someone has decided that Wiki has to be shutdown and this is the first salvo. Creative interpetation of the law is the first step, next comes minor legal harassment and then some sort of major legal battle. The end result is not to shut down wiki as illegal as to wear out its resources.


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Hello world!

Learn more about me on Meta-Wiki's userpage!

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Thread:Comments:FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines/Well done, Mike!/reply (3)

I heartily agree, It's an absurd situation, that David Larson ought to be sacked from his post for abuse of authority.


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Wikinews Shorts: August 4, 2010

BP starts "static kill" to permanently stop oil spill
BP (British Petroleum) engineers began injecting drilling mud into the capped Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico as the first part of a "static kill" procedure intended to permanently stop the flow of oil into the Gulf coast. Earlier in the day, the multi-national energy company ran "injectivity tests" to find out if the well, which had been leaking for months, could withstand the pressure of the procedure, which is meant to plug up the oil that isn't flowing because the well has been capped. The procedure, unlike the "top kill" attempted in May, is designed to proceed slowly.

After a day-long delay, BP declared that the procedure could safely begin and that company's senior vice president, Kent Wells, said that the afternoon pressure test "went exactly as planned".

The company also said that the "static kill" was only half the solution, with the other half being two relief wells that are planned to plug the well from the bottom.

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Drunk illegal immigrant kills nun, injures two
An illegal immigrant accused of driving drunk has been charged with killing Sister Denise Mosier, a nun, and severely injuring two other nuns. Carlos Martinelly Montano, 23, has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) and involuntary manslaughter, following a car crash which occurred at 8:30 AM EDT on Sunday (0030 Monday, UTC). The man has also been charged with felony driving under a revoked drivers license. The car accident occurred in Virginia, USA's Prince William County. Police also said that Montano is an illegal immigrant awaiting deportation and has also repeatedly been charged with drunk driving.

The US stated that Montano had been released in 2008, with immigration judge's review of his case pending. Homeland Security Secretary called the accident "a horrible thing" and saying, "this is a horrible case. Why is it that this individual was still out driving? He was in removal proceedings. Why were the removal proceedings taking so long?"

All three nuns were driving to a retreat at the Benedictine Monastery in Bristow, Va when Montano crashed into their car. Montano has been treated for injuries.

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Kenyans to vote on new constitution
On Wednesday, Kenyans will vote on a new constitution that intends to fix many of the country's political problems like widespread corruption and heightened ethnic divisions. Wednesday has been declared a public holiday so more people can vote.

Billie O’Kadameri of Radio France International described opposition that arose from an alliance of churches and political leaders. Warnings of disruption in opposition areas have marred what the government initially hoped would be a united vote in support of the proposal.

However, Salim Lone, senior adviser to Prime Minister, said that "[Kenyans] are united as we have never been since independence more than 45 years ago," and, "Virtually all Kenyans, from across the political and ethnic divides, want this constitution".

The new constitution would restrict the president's power, gives the people a bill of rights, gives more power to local governments and encourages land reform. However, the tribe claims that the new land reform would lead to the taxation and even seizure of their lands.

The last time a major vote was held (the Kenyan presidential election in 2007), violence left almost 1,500 people dead and over half a million displaced. Sources

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Thread:Comments:FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines/Well done, Mike!/reply (4)

That is going a bit far, Mr Wilson.

CNN called Mr Godwin's reply "whimsical" in style, and I have to agree.

I think Mr Larson deserved the ribbing he got from Mr Godwin, but not the embarrassment of this week's publicity storm. He must feel terrible right now.


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Talk:Wikinews Shorts: August 4, 2010

Not shorts
Many of these articles meet the three-paragraph minimum. Why are you compiling them into a Shorts article? Benny the mascot (talk) 04:43, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

 * I agree Benny, the Kenyan vote and the Connecticut beer man are long enough (just) to be stand alone articles). The other two could be combined to make a shorts article. --InfantGorilla (talk) 04:45, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

 * I think they should all be shorts articles compiled into one Wikinews shorts. As stand-alone articles, they would be on the small side and plus since no Wikinews shorts have been made since February, I would like to get shorts started again. Cheers, --Shankarnikhil88 (talk) 04:59, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

 * I know from bitter experience on both sides of the fence, that shorts can take longer to review (reviewer has to read at least 8 sources on diverse topics)
 * You can still have published shorts with just the two articles. Anyway, Fetchcomms already posted a stub for Nine dead in shooting rampage at Connecticut beer warehouse, so I moved your text there.
 * I like shorts too - three cheers for reviving them.
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Thread:Comments:FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines/Well done, Mike!/reply (5)

I wholeheartedly agree, this is a ridiculous excuse to exert control over the wikimedia foundation, setting an example that could be followed by even more absurd complaints. props to wiki.


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I think it was bad taste of some newspapers to headline this "tsunami". While it would indeed be dangerous and dramatic if you were close to the Sun, here on Earth we should get nothing more than a nice light show (if we have cloudless skies.)


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A spaceweather.com reader in Denmark uploaded a nice picture of green aurora just above the horizon.

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I care, and so, apparently, does Stephen Fry (or at least the researchers for his BBC TV show QI care.)

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Please, for my peace of mind, please don't call the Foundation "wiki". Wikipedia and Wikinews weren't the first wikis. English Wikipedia started in 2001, but Ward's Wiki predates it by seven years.


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Stale?
We all don't want this to become stale so maybe someone could get this ready for a review? --Soulofkane (talk) 10:28, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

 * OK. The original author posted a review tag when xe put it up as a "short". However, xe is offline. Since it is basically unchanged, I put the review tag back, even though I suspect it needs some copyediting and an image/infobox. --InfantGorilla (talk)


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Basically the sun emits particles that travel towards the planets. These particles get deflected by Earth's magnetic field. When they get deflected they move towards the weakest points on said magnetic field, which happens to be the north magnetic pole, and south magnetic pole. When they get low enough into the atmosphere they interact with they air causing the colors.


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Hello,

Your recent contributions are considered to be spam and have been reverted or deleted. Should you believe that your contributions are not spam, please argue your case on your talk page, or in WN:ALERT.

Further spamming may result in your editing privileges being removed. Please contribute to Wikinews in a constructive fashion instead. InfantGorilla (talk) 07:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

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Thread:Comments:FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines/Well done, Mike!/reply (7)

Indeed, Mr. Gorilla, perhaps my hyperbolic remarks were a bit too sharp. However I strongly feel that any serious attempt by a law enforcement agency of a major national government to curtail the Internet's free and uncensored access to information that so many of us hold dear, particularly on what are obviously erroneous grounds, should be treated  very seriously. I wish no ill whatsoever to Mr. Larson-as counsel to the FBI he is only doing his job-but I sincerely hope that the bad press his agency has received over this has made them think twice about acting upon such authoritarian proclivities


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Guess the Wikimedia-haters can't insinuate that the Foundation is in league with the FBI anymore.

Or maybe this is a poorly-disguised cover for the fact that too many people know the secret now. Nice try, folks. We know the truth... admins are all employed by the FBI and use secret proxies to appear that they edit from all over the world. There is a ring of maybe 1000 people who sockpuppet as admins across all projects, causing carefully-planned controversy and projecting a variety of personas.

Information wants to be free... Wikimedia will keep it free... the FBI keeps control over what's important. Pretty neat deal.

Oh, wait, that means I'm employed by the FBI. Where's my paycheck?

this is what happens when I have a thousand better things to do but can't be bothered.


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This is especially clear in light of the American DOD's remarks over the leaked reports of undisclosed civilian casualties, That "Wikileaks has the blood of Afghan civilians on their hands" Such ludicrous Hypocrisy! Did wikileaks send drones to launch missile's at someone's village, hmm, I think not!


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It wasnt very helpful at all, SMD —203.52.130.138 (talk) 04:44, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

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Halifax bank: UK house prices rose 0.6% during July

August 5, 2010

Halifax, a bank in the United Kingdom, has announced that house prices in the country rose 0.6% during the month of July 2010, according to a survey of house prices made by the mortgage provider. House prices fell 0.6% over the course of June 2010.

Halifax economist Martin Ellis commented: "House prices increased by 0.6 percent in July, reversing the fall in June." He also stated: "Overall, there has been little change in prices during 2010 so far. The mixed pattern of monthly rises and falls over the first seven months of the year is consistent with a slowing market. It is also in line with our view that house prices will be broadly unchanged over 2010 as a whole."

Statistics from Halifax also reveal that the average price of a house in the UK is currently £167,425 (US$266,366, €201,849, A$291,950, C$273,044). This figure is 16% less than the summit witnessed in August 2007.


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I think you mean w:Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous). Your link was broken for me.


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प्रसन्नकुमार ह्यांच्या सदस्यपृष्ठावर आपले स्वागत आहे.!. Welcome to Userpage of PRASANNAKUMAR  Following text Intended for Marathi Language Users,Which uses Devanagari Font script मी एक मराठी विकिपीडियावरील संपादक सदस्य आहे, महाराष्ट्राची सांस्कृतीक राजधानी आणि विद्येचे माहेर असणार्‍या पुण्यात मी राहतो.वाचन आणि लिखाण हे माझे आवडते छंद आहेत, तसेच माझ्याकडे जी काही जुजबी किंवा सखोल माहिती असते ती मी समर्थ रामदासस्वामींच्या "आपणासी जे जे ठावें, ते दुसर्‍यांसी सांगावे, शहाणे करूनी सोडावे, सकलजन." ह्या उक्तीप्रमाणे ,इतरांना सांगत असतो.माझ्या ह्याच वृत्तीमुळे मी मराठी विकिपीडिया कडे वळलो ,आणि मला जे काही ठाऊक आहे ते लिखाण स्वरूपात मांडू लागलो.मराठी विकिपीडिया हे मराठी लेखनाची (अर्थात टंकलेखन)आवड असणार्‍या रसिकांसाठी खरोखरच एक उत्तम व्यासपीठ आहे.इथे कुणीही मुक्तपणे नविन लेखांद्वारे विविध विषयांची भर घालू शकतो आणि त्याद्वारे मराठी भाषेतील ज्ञानकोश वृद्धींगत करण्यास मदत करू शकतो.मी ह्यास भाषेची एक प्रकारे सेवाच मानतो.इतर भाषांतील लेख आणि माहिती मराठीत आणणे हा माझा सध्याचा उद्योग किंवा कार्य म्हणा, हे म्हणजे माहितीच्या महाजालातील एका खारूताईच्या(Squirrel) कार्यासमान आहे असे मी मानतो.सध्या मराठी विकिपीडियाला अशा अनेक खारीचा वाटा उचलणार्‍यांची गरज आहे,तेव्हा जर आपणांस लिखाण आणि वाचनाची आवड असेल तर आपले अनमोल सहकार्य आपण नविन लेखांची निर्मिती तसेच जुन्या लेखांत अधिक माहिती भरून करु शकता.त्यासाठी आपण खाली नमूद कोणत्याही दूव्याद्वारे अधिक माहिती मिळवू शकतात.विकिपीडियावरील सदस्य आणि प्रबंधक आपणास हवे ते सहकार्य करतीलच ह्याची खात्री बाळगा.तर मग चला आजच, आत्ताच आपल्या लिखाणास आरंभ करा. "कसे करायचे" माहित नाही? सांगतो, .
 * Name-Prasannakumar
 * Home wiki- Marathi Wikipedia.(http://mr.wikipedia.org/)
 * Location-Pune,Maharashtra,India.
 * Primary Languages-Marathi & English.
 * Additional Languages-Hindi,Gujarati,Tamil,Malayalam.(Indian Languages)
 * Contributions-More than 1772 New Articles & Classes,More than 4200 Edits in 11 Month on Marathi Wikipedia.
 * Small Contributions on other Wikipedias
 * Main Interests-Films,Dramas-Plays,Culture,Languages,History & Traditions.
 * My Home WikiPage- http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/सदस्य:Prasannakumar
 * मी प्रसन्नकुमार
 * Wish to Create a New Article on Wikipedia?,Make use of the TextBox Given Below and start Editing
 * *माझ्यासोबत चर्चा करा किंवा मला संदेश पाठविण्यासाठी वरती "Discussion" ह्या सदरात "Add Talk" वर टिचकी (क्लिक) मारा
 * To Discuss/Talk with me or to send Message please Click on "Discussion" (Above) followed by "Add Talk".

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Black Eyed Peas to release new album, 'I Gotta Feeling' reaches six million downloads

August 5, 2010

US hip hop group Black Eyed Peas has announced that it is almost finished with its new studio album, The Beginning. The group's leader and producer, will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.), says that the recording "symbolizes growth, new beginnings and starts, fresh new perspective. It's a positive, feel-good [album] at the time where there's question marks and uncertainty. People want to be reminded that it's going to be all right."

The Beginning is the group's sixth studio album and is set to be released by the end of the year. It comes one year after the release of multiplatinum The E.N.D. and one of its hit singles "I Gotta Feeling".

"I Gotta Feeling" officially became the most downloaded digital song last Friday, having reached six million legal digital downloads. Released in June 2009, the song topped the charts for fourteen weeks. iTunes still lists the song as the bestselling of all time, and its music video on YouTube has reached approximately 38 million views.

Will.i.am said of the milestone, "We came out in '98 and our career, if you would look at it on chart, there's no dips in it. For our career to still be healthy and vibrant and doing things like 6 million downloads, it's pretty significant."


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I recently listened to Joyce's "Dubliners" over at LibriVox and all the readers were exceptional till I got to the final story which was read in such a manner that it took me many attempts to get through it. He seemed to be highly aware of the sound of his own voice which resulted in a precious quality for much of the phrasing that was entirely inappropriate. Wrong intonation which almost never changed from line to line until the final 1/3 of this chapter where he, surprisingly, seemed to transform into someone with feeling for the material.

I then tried to listen to "Ulysses" and, seeing that it was the same reader, groaned and jumped in to find myself throwing in the towel after the first few minutes for the same reasons stated above.

I am utterly amazed to have, just now, discovered that this reader, Hugh McGuire, is the founder of LibriVox.

I realize that LibriVox is free but my suggestion to Hugh is to attend only to the ins and outs of this great thing that you created and leave the reading to the people who have a grasp of it. —173.166.26.241 (talk) 16:01, 4 August 2010 (UTC)


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One dead after small plane crashes near Phoenix

August 4, 2010 The pilot of a small plane that crahed into a warehouse near in Phoenix, Arizona has been confirmed dead.

The plane veered off the airport runway early Wednesday, shortly before landing, and then slammed into a pest-control building a quarter-mile away, bursting into flames. The cause of the crash is unknown, and no one knows how many passengers were in the plane. The small plane was a four-seat single-engine Cirrus SR 22, which is built out of a composite of plastics and fiberglass.

Cindy Cross, a witness of the crash, said that "there was just a horrible black plume of smoke. We knew that it had hit a building and that it was bad because it wasn't a normal fire."

The Deer Valley Airport serves general aviation and hosts an aviation school. It is unknown if the flight was a training flight or not.


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I do most of my editing at the English Wikipedia. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:09, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

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I saw this on CBS 5 News :) 98.177.155.42 (talk) 12:57, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


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Wikinews Shorts: August 5, 2010

Four dead in Chinese kindergarten school attack
A man armed with a 2-foot long knife killed three children and a teacher in a brutal attack in Zibo in eastern China. The Chinese government has been mostly silent on the incident.

The man who killed the people was identified as 26 year-old Fang Jiantang, and he later turned himself in to police. His motive for killing the children and the teacher is unknown.

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Cutting down of tree flares up Lebanese violence
After a rare clash between Israeli and Lebanese forces over the cutting down of a tree near the border of the two countries, it appears that all sides are attempting to restore peace.

The skirmish started after an Israeli soldier started cutting down a tree that has the capability to provide cover for Lebanese infiltrators. Israel has stated that they clear the border of underbrush weekly. After the tree was cut down, the Lebanese army started firing. The Lebanese were allegedly aiming at a base nearby, and the resulting skirmish killed a senior Israeli military officer, a Lebanese journalist, and two Lebanese army soldiers.

The United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon has stated that Israel was operating in their own territory. However, Lebanese Information Minister Tarek Mitri said that the area of land which had the tree "[was] Lebanese territory," and also stated that though Lebanon respects the border, the country still contests part of it.

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Music star Wyclef Jean to seek Haitian presidency
According to TIME magazine, Haitian-American music star Wyclef Jean is to seek Haiti's presidency this Thursday. Last week Jean, who is a former member of the Fugees music group, took legal steps to run for the presidency, and Jean said in an interview that "if I can't take five years out to serve my country as President, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything." His younger brother also said that his candidacy was "very serious."

On January 12 of this year, Haiti was rocked by a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed 300,000 and displaced millions. Whoever wins the presidency will face the task of rebuilding the crippled country. The presidential elections are scheduled for November 28.

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Pakistani president criticized over European tour
The president of Pakistan, Asif Zardari, is facing criticism for continuing a tour of Europe while his homeland is facing the worst flooding in 80 years.

Opposition politician Imran Khan called for the president "to head home immediately." Khan citicized Zardari for "[going] on this lavish tour — this money could be used on the victims. Remember, Pakistan is bankrupt right now so the government doesn't have enough money, so he should be mobilizing people to help these victims of the floods." Zardari is scheduled to meet UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday.

The flooding has killed over 1,500 people and has left over three million others in need of assistance. According to Islamabad's National Weather Forecasting Center, rain has been falling at a rate of 25-30% higher than average.

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Boeing 787 orders go negative for 2010
Aircraft company Boeing lost orders for 26 jets over the past week, according to the company's website. Boeing lost 15 orders for their new and long-delayed 787 Dreamliner, 10 for their Boeing 777 and one for their smaller 737 jet. The company also gained two orders for the 737, which makes for a net loss of 25 orders. Boeing hasn't identified the customers that cancelled their orders.

With the 15 dropped 787 orders, Boeing has lost four more orders than it gained for the aircraft this year. Boeing has gained 28 orders for the 787 and lost 32 in 2010. Boeing has gained 255 orders for its lineup this year, which consists of the 737, 747, 767, 777 and 787. 229 of those orders are for the 737 jet.

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Alex Rodriguez hits 600th home run
Alex Rodriguez, baseball player for the New York Yankees, hit his 600th career home run on Wednesday. His 600th home run was hit in Yankee Stadium against the Blue Jays. The Yankees currently lead 5–1 against the Blue Jays in the game. Yankees manager Joe Girardi said that the homer was "an amazing feat — quite an accomplishment."

With the home run, Rodriguez, also known as A-Rod, became the seventh player in Major League Baseball history to reach the 600 milestone.

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Thanks for the heads-up on the Chomsky book.

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California's same-sex marriage ban ruled unconstitutional; appeal expected

August 4, 2010

A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that California's Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in the state, violates the and the  of the.

"Plaintiffs challenge Proposition 8 under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment," wrote U.S. District Chief Judge. "Each challenge is independently meritorious, as Proposition 8 both unconstitutionally burdens the exercise of the fundamental right to marry and creates an irrational classification on the basis of sexual orientation." Proposition 8, which was passed by California voters by referendum in November 2008, banned same-sex marriage in the state, which had been legal after a California Supreme Court on May 15, 2008. The proposition's passage did not reverse the marriages of thousands of same-sex couples who had gotten married in the state in the interval.

The case, , was heard by Chief Judge Walker. Anticipating a defeat, the pro-Proposition 8 coalition of "defendant-intervenors" filed this morning a "motion for stay pending appeal", asking the court for its ruling to not take effect unless the decision is upheld by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; both sides in the case say an appeal is inevitable.

Speaking for LGBT rights group, Jennifer C. Pizer said, "In holding that Prop 8 cannot stand because it violates the equal protection and due process rights of California’s lesbian and gay couples, this decision adds to the growing consensus in courts and legislatures across the country that there are no good reasons for excluding same-sex couples from marriage." Courtenay Semel, an actress and LGBT activist, told Wikinews "today marks another day in history! A big win for equal marriage. It's about time that progress is being made towards equality for all."


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We have so many articles related to marriages in California. Which ones should we link to in this article? Benny the mascot (talk) 21:31, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * I would prefer the latter myself. --Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 22:22, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Press release from Lambda Legal
Lambda Legal Applauds Perry v. Schwarzenegger Ruling Striking Down Prop 8

“The evidence and legal arguments proved once again that withholding marriage harms devoted same-sex couples and their families, and helps no one.”

Jennifer C. Pizer, National Marriage Project Director for Lambda Legal, issued the following statement in reaction to today’s decision from U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in Perry v. Schwarzenegger:

“This is historic. Last summer, Judge Walker asked for a detailed factual record so he could assess the public interests supposedly served by Proposition 8. The meticulous assessment of the Prop 8 defenders’ case today makes clear: There’s no there, there. In holding that Prop 8 cannot stand because it violates the equal protection and due process rights of California’s lesbian and gay couples, this decision adds to the growing consensus in courts and legislatures across the country that there are no good reasons for excluding same-sex couples from marriage. Instead, the evidence and legal arguments proved once again that withholding marriage harms devoted same-sex couples and their families, and helps no one.

“The court examined the range of excuses used by anti-gay groups to justify this government discrimination against same-sex couples. The testimony of leading experts on everything from child development to adult psychology to the public costs of anti-gay discrimination laid bare the misinformation and outright lies that anti-gay groups have been pushing on the public.

“This thorough review of both sides’ evidence vindicates the rights of LGBT people not only to marry based on love and commitment, as heterosexuals do, but to be treated equally and fairly by their government more generally. Just as past marriage victories laid the foundation for today’s important win, the court’s preparation of a detailed record for the Court of Appeals provides a potent tool for other legal cases and the many, ongoing educational campaigns. It doubtless will help more people see that anti-gay discrimination in marriage is destructive and unjustifiable.

“No one is under any illusion that today’s decision is the end of this fight. Prop 8’s proponents have made clear they will appeal. But today, we appreciate the clear and detailed analysis in this decision that will frame the case as it moves forward, and we congratulate the legal team of Ted Olson and David Boies, and of the City and County of San Francisco, for presenting such a thorough and compelling case in court.”

The law firms Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Boies, Schiller & Flexner filed Perry v. Schwarzenegger in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on May 22, 2009 on behalf of two same-sex couples who had been denied marriage licenses earlier that month. The case challenges California’s Proposition 8, which changed the California Constitution on November 4, 2008 to eliminate lesbian and gay couples’ right to marry in that state.

Lambda Legal, the ACLU, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed two friend-of-the-court briefs in the case supporting the argument that Prop 8 violates the federal Constitution. The LGBT legal groups’ amicus briefs explained that, given California’s unique history and laws and the campaign process through which Prop 8 was enacted: (1) the measure is an unlawful denial of equal protection no matter what form of constitutional review is applied and (2) it fails the heightened due process review required under the U.S. Constitution.

As of today, ten countries allow same-sex couples to marry: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and Sweden). Lesbian and gay couples also can marry in Mexico City the most populous city in North America.

In the United States, the following six jurisdictions allow same-sex couples to marry: Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.

The California Supreme Court held in May 2009 that the estimated 18,000 couples who married in California between that court’s marriage equality decision in May 2008 and Prop 8’s passage on November 4, 2008 remain validly married under California law. At least Maryland and New York honor married same-sex couples’ marital status from other states. At least California and New Jersey treat married same-sex couples as entitled to all state law rights and responsibilities through state domestic partnership or civil union rules.

According to U.S. Census figures for 2005, California is home to more than 100,000 same-sex couples, living in every county in the state and raising nearly 40,000 children but with fewer financial resources than their married counterparts. The data also show more than 1,300,000 lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals living in California, and that California’s LGB population is racially and ethnically diverse and by far the largest nationally.

For more information, please go to www.lambdalegal.org/protecting-same-sex-relationships.

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Today on Wikinews : Eight people and a gunman are dead in shooting rampage at a Connecticut beer warehouse; US President Barack Obama'a approval ratings hit a new low and in history, we trace the importance of a humble, everyday device that was vital for the French Revolution.

Today is Wednesday, August 04, 2010. I'm Dan Harlow and this is Wikinews.

Nine dead in shooting rampage at Connecticut beer warehouse (0:34)
A Manchester, Connecticut beer driver caught stealing beer from the warehouse he works for has killed nine people, including himself, after he resigned and went on a shooting rampage. The man, Omar Thornton, went on his killing spree after being showed video evidence of him stealing beer from Hartford Distributors Inc, a beverage wholesaler.

Company Vice President Steve Hollander said that Thornton "was cool and calm. He didn't yell. He was cold as ice. He didn't protest when we were meeting with him to show him the video of him stealing. He didn't contest it. He didn't complain. He didn't argue. He didn't admit or deny anything. He just agreed to resign. And then he just unexplainably pulled out his gun and started blasting."

Hollander also stated that the 34 year-old man had guns hidden away in his lunch box. The Vice President, who says that two people around him were killed, was only injured and added "By just the grace of God, I don't know how he missed me." Another employee said "people were pleading with him to put the gun down and to stop, but he was in his own world at that point."

Thornton opened fire around 7:00 am local time (11:00 UTC). According to his uncle, Will Holliday, during a phone call, in which his mother pleaded with the gunman not to commit suicide, Thornton said that "[he] killed the five racists that was there that was bothering me. The cops are going to come in so I am going to take care of myself,"

One dead after small plane crashes near Phoenix (2:02)
The pilot of a small plane that crashed into a warehouse near Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix, Arizona has been confirmed dead.

The plane veered off the airport runway early Wednesday, shortly before landing, and then slammed into a pest-control building a quarter-mile away, bursting into flames. The cause of the crash is unknown, and no one knows how many passengers were in the plane. The small plane was a four-seat single-engine Cirrus SR 22, which is built out of a composite of plastics and fiberglass.

Cindy Cross, a witness of the crash, said that "there was just a horrible black plume of smoke. We knew that it had hit a building and that it was bad because it wasn't a normal fire."

The Deer Valley Airport serves general aviation and hosts an aviation school. It is unknown if the flight was a training flight or not.

Obama approval ratings hit new lows (2:54)
According to new polls, US President Barack Obama's approval ratings have dropped across the board. According to a new USA Today/Gallup poll, Americans are losing faith in the president's plan in Afghanistan and Iraq, where wars have been going on for years and casualties have risen. 43% of those polled say that it was a mistake to go to war after terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center buildings in New York on September 11, 2001. Barely a third of respondents favored Obama's strategy in the two Middle East wars. In another Gallup poll, just 36% of poll respondents supported the way Obama was handling Afghanistan, a sharp decline from 48% in February.

The drop in support for the ongoing wars (though the one in Iraq is slated to end soon) has been hastened by rising casualties and the Wikileaks leak of over 90,000 confidential military documents that paint a grim picture of the war in Afghanistan. About 76,000 of these have been released to the public. However, two-thirds of the people polled in the USA Today/Gallup Poll said it was wrong for the whistle-blower website to publish the documents, which have often been compared to the Pentagon Papers. Also, 57% of respondents said they want a timetable for removing American troops, and two-thirds of those 57% said they want a gradual withdrawal.

Obama's approval rating also hit a new low in the poll. Just 41% of poll respondents approved of Obama's handling of his job, while 53% disapproved. The above poll was conducted Tuesday through Sunday, and a Gallup poll on Monday had him at 45% approval. A Rasmussen Reports poll has Obama's July approval rating at 46%, while 54% disapprove.

Also, according to another poll, Obama's quarterly job approval average has hit an administration low. The quarterly rating, which is compiled of Gallup polls averaged out each quarter, has sunk every quarter Obama has been in office, but at different rates. In his sixth quarter of office, Obama averaged 47.3% approval, which varied from 52% in a poll conducted in mid-May to just 44% in another one conducted in mid-July. The biggest quarterly drop that Obama had was from Q2 to Q3 of his presidency, when health-care reform ran into trouble. Obama's approval rating declined from 62% to 52.9% during that period. Since then, the approval slide has plateaued, with declines of 2% of average from Q4-Q6.

On this day in history (5:27)

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In the 1790's, after the beheading of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution, the French Revolutionary army had begun to expand French control to the Low Countries, Italy, and the Rhineland.

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However, though the army was characterized by its revolutionary fervor, it initially experienced mixed results. France's enemies, fearing the revolution would soon be exported to their empires, included Prussia, Austria, Sardinia, Naples, Spain and Great Britain and enjoyed superior military numbers. France thus found herself under attack on all fronts and when an armed revolt broke out in La Vendée, a fiercely Catholic region of France, it seemed that the fall of the young republic was imminent.

Poorly disciplined and, just as importantly, poorly equipped, the French Revolutionary army needed rearranging. So, in early 1793 a man named Lazare Carnot, a prominent mathematician and physicist, was promoted to the Committee of Public Safety. Carnot, who was an exceptional talent for organization and for enforcing discipline, set about reorganizing the disheveled Armies. Realizing that no amount of reform and discipline was going to offset the massive numerical superiority enjoyed by France's enemies, Carnot introduced conscription, known as the levée en masse, and he was able to raise France’s army from a meager 645,000 troops in mid-1793 to 1,500,000 in September 1794.

Once the problem of troop numbers had been solved Carnot turned his administrative skills to the supplies that this massive army would need. Many of the munitions and supplies were in short supply: copper was lacking for guns so he ordered church bells seized in order to melt them down; saltpeter was lacking and he called chemistry to his aid and leather for boots was scarce so he demanded and secured new methods for tanning.

Yet in 1795, France was under a naval blockade imposed by Great Britain and was unable to import pure graphite sticks from the British Grey Knotts mines – the only known source in the world at the time for solid graphite. Carnot, needing to keep track of the armies supplies thus faced a unique problem; he had all these supplies, but was running out of pencils to keep tally of the mass of inventories.

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To solve this problem, Carnot turned to one of his officers, a man named Nicolas-Jacques Conté who was born on this day in history in 1755. After several days of research, Conté discovered a method of mixing powdered graphite with clay and forming the mixture into rods that were then fired in a kiln. By varying the ratio of graphite to clay, the hardness of the graphite rod could also be varied.

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Thus was formed the humble, modern pencil and with its assistance the First French Republic, which had started out from a position precariously near occupation and collapse, had defeated all its enemies and produced a revolutionary army that would take the other powers years to emulate. In 1802, France and England signed the Treaty of Amiens, the only period of peace during the so-called 'Great French War' between 1793 and 1815, however the peace treaty only lasted for one year - one wonders if it may have been signed with one of Conté's pencils.

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Italian senate rejects no-confidence vote against minister

August 5, 2010

Silvio Berlusconi has survived a key no-confidence vote against a minister in his cabinet accused of corruption. The vote was the first test of the strength of the Prime Minister's coalition since the dramatic split with his 16-year ally, which led to the coalition losing the majority.

Yesterday the voted 299 to 229 to reject the no-confidence motion brought against Giacomo Caliendo. Caliendo is a junior minister for justice accused of involvement in a secret cabal that reportedly tried to influence judical and government appointments. His resignation was called for by the opposition but, crucially, it was the abstention of 75 members of the senate, Gianfranco Fini's rebels, that led to the motion being defeated.

The abstention averted a confrontation between the coalition and the rebels but it can also be seen as a show of strength by the renegades, a way of showing their powerful influence while avoiding a dispute.

Although superficially the motion's rejection appears to show that the coalition government can still be effective without a majority, The 's website commented that it demonstrates that Fini's rebels are now in a position to control the outcome of votes in the house, since their support or their abstention can mean the difference between a motion passing or being rejected.

The motion's defeat also means that the early elections that looked to be on the horizon may be put off. The elections could have been called early due to the rupture in the party but now may be postponed until later this year. Berlusconi's closest ally Umberto Bossi, head of the, said: "This means that we are resisting and that we will not go to the polls for now." However Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, also of the Northern League party, said yesterday that elections later this year could not be ruled out.

The alleged influence-peddling that junior minister Caliendo is accused of is the same kind of moral and legal issue that has dogged Berlusconi's government, and the kind of issue that led Fini to lead the break away from the coalition. The Prime Minister may be facing impeachment after Italy's Constitutional Court overturned a law granting him immunity from prosecution. Even though the defeat of this motion means the coalition has passed the first test of strength, it may not do it much good if the Prime Minister faces prosecution.


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Talk:Halifax bank: UK house prices rose 0.6% during July

Maybe its just me, but when i see Halifax, I assume Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - not some bank in the UK. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:31, 4 August 2010 (UTC)


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Talk:Wikinews Shorts: August 5, 2010

Short #6: Notes on OR from VOIP call to Port Moresby Geophysical Observatory
Call was placed 23:46BST (22:46UTC) to the observatory, call was taken by Richard (did not get a last name). After telling him who I was and why I was calling, we spoke for about 3 to 4 minutes, i gained basic details such as location, inital readings (which the PMGO got at 7.1, USGS revised to 7.0) and info about the power and communications to New Britain being out, as the PMGO staff had tried to telephone the Observation station in Kandrian, and been unable to get a response. As this was only a brief call to get info, since they were busy, I didn't make too many notes, only what was relevant such as the tsunami bulletin, etc. BarkingFish (talk) 23:29, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * BarkingFish later cut and pasted this to Magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits New Britain, Papua New Guinea, under which title it was published. --InfantGorilla (talk) 07:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Order
Is there a rationale behind the order? I think the violence should be first and the sports last, to reflect the order of a typical newspaper or broadcast. --InfantGorilla (talk) 07:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC) I re-ordered it. --InfantGorilla (talk) 07:09, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Baseball article missing source
The last article is not sourced properly. The quote by manager is not in any of the 2 sources. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 21:58, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Shorts get top billing?
Do shorts usually headline (meaning one of those slots with the picture and caption left of the Latest News)? If they sometimes do, I would like to have this one on the headlines as hardly anyone read the August 4 shorts. --Shankarnikhil88 (talk) 00:33, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Pakistani president European tour article
The Pakistani president is gonna be in my home city tomorrow and though the area is tightly policed and closed off because of fear of terrorist attack I'm gonna try and get some (legal!) pictures and maybe get a full story together for this short. Obviously I'll fully source any opinions or judgements or comments I include.

Here's to not getting arrested. FireLyte--spyre (talk) 01:18, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Probably should be its own separate article- these shorts are supposed to be from August 5. Anyway good luck on the original reporting. --Shankarnikhil88 (talk) 01:51, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

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Magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits New Britain, Papua New Guinea

August 5, 2010 An earthquake of 7.0 on the Richter scale has been reported as having struck the Pacific island of New Britain, the second island in the Papua and New Guinea group. The quake, which struck at 22:01 UTC yesterday evening, hit at a depth of approximately according to the.

According to a member of staff at the Port Moresby Geophysical Observatory, minor effects of the quake were felt there, more than South West of the epicenter. First reports from the area indicate that the Western parts of New Britain have no power or telecommunications.

A report posted in the local language, by Radio Australia's language service, gives the general location of the quake as  Southeast of Madang, and there are no initial reports of any tsunami warnings, and no reports of damage or casualties at press time.


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Notes on OR from VOIP call to Port Moresby Geophysical Observatory
Call was placed 23:46BST (22:46UTC) to the observatory via Gizmo, call was taken by Richard (did not get a last name). After telling him who I was and why I was calling, we spoke for about 3 to 4 minutes, i gained basic details such as location, inital readings (which the PMGO got at 7.1, USGS revised to 7.0) and info about the power and communications to New Britain being out, as the PMGO staff had tried to telephone the Observation station in Kandrian, and been unable to get a response. As this was only a brief call to get info, since they were busy, I didn't make too many notes, only what was relevant such as the tsunami bulletin, etc. BarkingFish (talk) 00:03, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


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Beautiful.


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I hope you're referring to the article, not the actual event itself...


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Talk:Black Eyed Peas to release new album, 'I Gotta Feeling' reaches six million downloads

Just for you, Tempo :) Benny the mascot (talk) 04:10, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Celebrity news should be considerably lower priority. And, to ask a rather pointed question, how can an unreleased album have six million downloads? That might just be a result of the title needing revised that this is the impression given.
 * The Beiber one was an embarrassment, it should never have been up on a lead; you had half of my Facebook contacts laughing at the project and making comparisons with The Onion. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 05:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


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I think so... they still seem to like Zac Efron


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21 sites added to Unesco World Heritage list

August 5, 2010 Unesco's World Heritage Committee inscribed 21 new sites into the World Heritage list on Wednesday, during the 34th session of the committee's meeting in, Brazil under the Chairmanship of the Minister of Culture of Brazil, João Luiz da Silva Ferreira.

Three countries had sites added to the list for the first time: Tajikistan, Kiribati, and Marshall Islands. The Committee added four sites to the World Heritage in Danger list, including the and, both in Georgia. The Galapagos (Ecuador) were removed from this list.

Some of the newly included World Heritages are: (United States),  (Mexico), and  (Brazil).

Unesco World Heritage sites have special cultural or physical significance as a place or region. Unesco conserves, names, and catalogues these sites for the common heritage of humanity. Italy ranks as the country with the most World Heritage sites, having 45 in total.


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Google to discontinue social networking application Google Wave

August 5, 2010

Google has decided to retire the Google Wave social-networking service after one year, citing lack of user adoption.

Urs Hölzle, Google senior vice president for operations, said in a blog post that "Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don't plan to continue developing Wave as a stand-alone product." Hölzle also said that as a "web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a Web browser. We weren't quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication." Google says that it will continue the service until the end of the year.

In May 2009, Google launched Wave as a private beta. A year later, it became open to the public. Wave is an email service that integrates social media features and capabilities into emailing. It integrates -like features into its service. The company released components of Google Wave as open source for those to create a similar service. "The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users easily "liberate" their content from Wave," Google said.


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"43% of those polled say that it was a mistake to go to war after terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center buildings in New York on September 11, 2001."

This sentence raised a few questions that disappointingly weren't answered in the article. What do the other 57% say? Is this higher or lower than it has been in the past few years?


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The U.S. war in Iraq will not be ending. Yes, maybe U.S. Armed Forces won't be involved, but U.S. PAID PRIVATE SECURITY FORCES will be carrying on as usual. Right now, there are as many private security forces in Iraq as U.S. Soldiers.


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Beechcraft and Cirrus are the biggest single engine death traps in the fixed wing general aviation world.

They are powered by unreliable Teledyne continental engines and should be grounded by the F.A.A.

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Naomi Campbell testifies against former Liberian president

August 5, 2010

Supermodel testified for prosecutors on Thursday in a war crimes case against former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

Taylor allegedly gave an uncut to Campbell in 1997 when they met for dinner in South Africa, according to Professor David Crane of Syracuse University.

Crane told Voice of America, "The testimony itself is important because the prosecution wants to show that Charles Taylor has the mindset or what we call the  to use the blood diamonds that were mined by Sierra Leoneans chained to pits in the Kailahun and Kenema area. And, he was using them for various reasons: to buy guns, to use cash to deposit, and also to buy influence."

Taylor denies he possessed any uncut diamonds.

Campbell said in her testimony, "When I was sleeping I had a knock on my door. I opened my door and two men were there and gave me a pouch and said, 'A gift for you.'" She said the men gave her "very small, dirty looking stones."

She continued, "At breakfast I told Miss [Mia] Farrow and Miss [Carole] White what had happened and one of the two said, well that's obviously Charles Taylor, and I said, yes I guess it was."

Campbell was not sure Taylor sent her the blood diamonds and she claimed she assumed it was the accused and continued stating it was unlikely anyone else gave her the gift.

The Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, The Netherlands ruled that no one may sketch, take photographs, or make videos of Campbell, due to her high profile. Photographers were barred from taking photos of Campbell entering or leaving the courthouse, but her testimony was recorded as usual.


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Thread:Comments:FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines/Wikimedia penny wise and pound foolish

Wikipedia has no need for an image in excess of 200px, never mind 2000px. The 500px, 1000px, and 2000px versions could be deleted from the Commons without compromising Wikipedia in the slightest and the message would be sent that when a creator releases a huge number of images to the public domain, that openness will not be used against the creator by Wikimedia taking a legalistic stance should the creator want one or two of those images "back". If Wikimedia is going to parse this relevant statute for the "most free" reading, the government is just going to be encouraged to write its statutes tighter such that the amount of material that goes to the Commons in general is more limited. There is no "higher power" here that forces the US govt to release as much material as it does to the public domain. To use the government's general policy of openness against it in a particular, narrow circumstance where Wikipedia has no dog in what is a fight over what is on Wikimedia Commons is to take a litigious and dogmatic stance instead of a nuanced one. Britannica has apparently had an internal discussion over whether to display the logo at any resolution on its FBI article page and decided to delete it. If the Wiki project is neutral I would think it would take its cue from this discretion instead of getting on a high horse and crusading.


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Western Australian court to set precedent on the burqa

August 8, 2010

A court in Perth, Western Australia is set to deliver a verdict on whether an Islamic woman can testify while wearing a. The woman, who claims to be a devout Muslim, wishes not to show her face to men and says she might be too uncomfortable to give a sufficient testimony if uncovered in front of all the people in the courtroom.

District court judge Shaun Dean received submissions from both the prosecution and the defence lawyers on the case that the woman was set to testify in, requesting that the woman either be allowed to tesify in the traditional coverings or forced to do so without them. The Muslim Ladies College of Australia and its director, Anwar Sayed, were accused of acquiring both federal and state funding in a fraudulent manner to the amount of and the woman was expected to testify regarding it.

Defence lawyers claim that valuable facial cues could be lost or hidden from the jury if the woman was to wear the Burqa while on the stand. Prosecutors stated that if the woman was expected to remove her covering, she would not be called as a witness.

It is speculated to be the first case of its kind in Australia and may set a legal precedent for future situations.


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Thread:Comments:California's same-sex marriage ban ruled unconstitutional; appeal expected/Comments from feedback form - "1. Why do people insist on get..."

1. Why do people insist on getting married 2. If people are going to get married, it should be available as an option for everyone to ruin there life with... 3. Anyone who compares same-sex marriage to marrying an animal or polygamy is ill-informed


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Thread:Comments:FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines/For reference/reply (2)

Corrected. ;)


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Thread:Comments:Magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits New Britain, Papua New Guinea/Not again!

2010 is the Year of Earthquakes.


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RAF UFO encounters may have been covered up by Churchill and Eisenhower

August 5, 2010

In light of documents released by the National Archives, The United Kingdom's has investigated claims that  and  may have orchestrated a cover-up of an Unidentified Flying Object sighting by the Royal Air Force.

Numerous public inquiry files suggest that great concern was had for the proposition that former Prime Minister of The UK, Churchill and then US General Eisenhower, knew of an unknown metalic object approaching RAF aircraft off the British coast during World War II. One inquiry noted a discussion between Churchill and Eisenhower overheard by Churchill's body guard by the apparent grandson of the body guard (whose name was blacked out).

The inquiry read, "During the discussion with Mr Churchill, a consultant dismissed any possibility that the object had been a missile, since a missile could not suddenly match its speed with a slower aircraft and then accelerate again [...] Another person at the meeting raised the possibility of an unidentified flying object, at which point Mr Churchill declared that the incident should be immediately classified for at least 50 years and its status reviewed by a future prime minister".

Further records showing Churchill's general interest in UFOs were released alongside many other public inquiry files that concluded any UFO sightings were no threat to British airspace and minutes from a Joint Intelligence Committee meeting in 1959, where UFO sightings were a major theme.

Sightings made by officials and civilians were discussed at the Joint Intelegence meeting and 16 cases were singled out, 10 were identified as technical faults, misinterpretations and hoaxes - while 6 remain unidentified.

The unit of the Ministry of Defence that dealt with UFOs was closed last year.


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Thread:Comments:Obama approval ratings hit new lows/Comments from feedback form - "hi"

hi


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Thread:Comments:Canadian singer Justin Bieber to publish memoir/What will he write about?/reply (4)

"Chapter One: My Birth

The clouds did open, and I, the lamb, did come down from the heavens. Then I started writing these memoirs- The End.

P.s totes got pubic hair today!"


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Comments:Canadian Immigration Minister outlines plan for application backlog, job vacancies

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give more details on how to apply,where, who is the authorize persons,what are the requirements. —114.108.192.7 (talk) 09:09, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


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Thread:Comments:Canadian singer Justin Bieber to publish memoir/Comments from feedback form - "Not News...Too Short...Not New..."

Not News...Too Short...Not News...


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