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offsite link Why is Rachel Reeves Cutting Benefits Before Defunding Gay Porn Studies? Fri Mar 14, 2025 09:00 | Charlotte Gill
Rachel Reeves is eyeing ?6 billion of welfare cuts in the spring Budget. But why cut benefits and winter fuel allowances when you're still funding 'gay porn studies' and 'queer archives', wonders Charlotte Gill.
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offsite link Ep.31 of the Sceptic: Thomas Fazi on the EU?s Propaganda Machine, David Shipley on the Sentencing Co... Fri Mar 14, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 31 of the Sceptic: Thomas Fazi on the EU?s propaganda machine, David Shipley on the Sentencing Council?s two-tier justice regime and former police officer Paul Birch on how the Met went woke.
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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Mar 14, 2025 01:14 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Disney ?Does Not Know What to Do? With ?Out of Control? Woke Snow White Star Rachel Zegler Thu Mar 13, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Super-woke Snow White star?Rachel Zegler?is "out of control" and Disney "doesn't know what to do with her" ahead of the $270 million movie's release, an insider has revealed.
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offsite link Covid Bias at the BMJ Thu Mar 13, 2025 17:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
Once a bastion of an evidence-based approach, the BMJ became biased towards lockdown and lost its way, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. History will judge that the lack of debate in its pages was a serious error.
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offsite link The agony of the ?political West?, by Thierry Meyssan Thu Mar 06, 2025 04:20 | en

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WikiLeaks reveals association with Aaron Swartz

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Monday January 21, 2013 21:26author by Elric Report this post to the editors

Read about the late Aaron Swartzs association with WikiLeaks. Full text at link.

In a series of tweets, WikiLeaks disclosed that deceased Internet activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz may have contributed to the organization and had even been in contact with Julian Assange. WikiLeaks said it was divulging this information “due to the investigation into the Secret Service involvement with #AaronSwartz.”

Swartz, who committed a suicide on Jan. 11, was arrested two years ago for breaking and entering into an MIT storage closet and accessing an Acer laptop that he programmed to download millions of scholarly articles from the JSTOR database. The Secret Service took charge of the Swartz investigation two days before his arrest and provided the prosecution with information that led to its harsh pursuit of the 26-year-old.

While it is unclear why WikiLeaks decided to disclose Swartz’s involvement with the document archive organization, some have suggested that the alliance may have prompted the US Attorney’s Office and the Secret Service to pursue Swartz more harshly. WikiLeaks confirmed that Swartz was in contact with its founder, Julian Assange, and indicated that he might have been one of their sources.

“Aaron Swartz assisted WikiLeaks #aaronwartz,” read the first tweet.

“Aaron Swartz was in communication with Julian Assange, including during 2010 and 2011,” the second one said.

“We have strong reasons to believe, but cannot prove, that Aaron Swartz was a WikiLeaks source. #aaronswartz”


Related Link: http://rt.com/usa/news/wikileaks-aaron-swartz-organization-448/
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