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		<title>Cézanne and Stem Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran an interesting story on an unlikely diplomatic dispute between the US and Russia over fine art and inter-museum exchange. Apparently in July of last year a federal judge in DC ruled that Russia was supposed to hand over a collection of books and religious documents to a sect of Hasidic [...]
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		<title>FBI Rushes to VISA&#8217;s Defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FBI has announced that it executed 40 search warrants for suspected members of the Anonymous international hacktivist group known for its actions in of Wikileaks. Police in the UK has arrested five suspected members of the group. Anonymous is credited with the successful attacks against VISA and MasterCard payment systems late last year after [...]
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		<title>Conspiracy Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am at work, filling my office with clouds of cigar smoke and reading Jim Goad&#8217;s &#8220;Julian Assange’s Honey Trap: That’s Rape in Sweden&#8220;, perhaps the most entertaining account to date of Assange&#8217;s Stockholm adventure. And a seemingly redundant question popped into my head: why exactly did Assange go to Sweden? I know, he went [...]
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		<title>Sweden Wants Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swedish prosecutors investigating Julian Assange told reporters that they were not involved in the Crown Prosecution Service&#8217;s decision to appeal an earlier decision by a judge at City of Westminster magistrates court granting Assange bail. &#8220;Karin Rosander, director of communications for Sweden&#8217;s prosecutor&#8217;s office, told the Guardian: &#8220;The decision was made by the British prosecutor. [...]
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		<title>Holbrooke&#8217;s Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of America&#8217;s preeminent diplomats (a title not hard to attain, judging by the Wikileaks&#8217; publications), former VP of a leading private equity firm Perseus LLC, and former board member of AIG died at the age of 69 from a ruptured aortic aneurysm after a meeting with Secretary Clinton. Evil tongues claim Wikileaks was the [...]
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		<title>Nothing Odd</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 08:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago Claes Borgström (thank God I am not Swedish), the lawyer representing Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén in the sex case against Julian Assange, decided to explain some of the more obvious discrepancies in his clients&#8217; version of events. Normally, this is what a good lawyer would be expected to do [...]
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		<title>WikiDefendors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Wikileaks and Julian Assange gained two new influential supporters: the UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay and her nemesis the Batman (aka Russia&#8217;s prime minister Vladimir Putin). Putin&#8217;s vocal support of Julian Assange comes a day after a member of Medvedev&#8217;s administration suggested Assange should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. &#8220;When asked [...]
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		<title>Network attacks against PayPal are effective</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PayPal is backpedaling and there is good reason for that. While PayPal's financial services remained accessible throughout the day, their performance was well below average. Prolonged, intermittent degradation of service can lead to the same loss of revenue as a complete but relatively brief outage. An intermittent degradation of service is also easier to achieve and harder to troubleshoot than a full outage. While PayPal's PR representative was not lying when he said that attacks failed to crash PayPal's services, they did degrade them significantly and it is just as bad, or worse.
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		<title>Nobel Prize for Assange</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unnamed member of Medvedev&#8217;s administration told Russian new agency RIA Novosti that nominating Assange for the Nobel Peace Prize should improve his chances resisting legal and political pressure. While it is unlikely that such a nomination will come from the Russian administration, the fact that they are even talking about this in the Kremlin [...]
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		<title>PayPal dumps Wikileaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you already know, PayPal stopped accepting charitable donations for Wikileaks. The Guardian reported that PayPal froze about eighty thousand dollars donated to Wikileaks via PayPal Donations service. So far PayPal has refused to release the funds, nor has it issued refunds to its customers who donated the money. I know this because I donated [...]
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