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Between 1981 and 1983, Obama is supposed to have visited Mars twice, by way of a teleportation chamber called a “jump room.” Basiago, a fellow chrononaut, told the website Exopolitics that he saw Obama “walk back to the jump room from across the Martian terrain.” To acknowledge his comrade, Obama is said to have told Basiago, “We’re here” — apparently, “with some sense of fatalism.
~ White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars | Danger Room | Wired.com -
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Almost 200 dead bottlenose dolphin bodies have been found since mid-January through this week along shorelines of Gulf coast states, including Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, Reuters notes. About half of the carcasses are newborns or stillborn infants.
~ Obama administration restricts findings on Gulf’s dead dolphins
That number is around 14 times the average numbers recorded during the same time frame between 2002 and 2007 and has coincidentally occurred during the first calving season since the BP Deepwater Horizon debacle last year in the Gulf. -
~ WikiLeaks, l’impossible traque | SlateL’administration Obama avait bien juré de faire appliquer à la lettre la loi fédérale d’accès à l’information (Freedom of Information Act), de rendre publique toute information d’intérêt public. Elle aura mis quatre mois à trahir sa parole, passée l’investiture de janvier 2009. Sécurité nationale, encore et toujours. WikiLeaks surgit alors et tourne à plein régime. La suite est connue mais pas finie. Et aucune démocratie, si grande soit-elle, ne peut plus espérer taire des pratiques qui bousculent sa réputation.
Trente ans après la divulgation des «Papiers du Pentagone» sur la guerre du Vietnam par le New York Times, les Etats-Unis se croyaient-ils à l’abri d’une nouvelle fuite d’envergure, en pleine mise en question de leur politique étrangère?
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~ WikiLeaks response exposes U.S. hypocrisy | OregonLive.comThis past Jan. 21, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. She said then:
“In many respects, information has never been so free. There are more ways to spread more ideas to more people than at any moment in history. Even in authoritarian countries, information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable.
“During his visit to China, President Obama held a town hall meeting with an online component to highlight the importance of the Internet. In response to a question that was sent in over the Internet, he defended the right of people to freely access information, and said that the more freely information flows, the stronger societies become. He spoke about how access to information helps citizens to hold their governments accountable, to generate new ideas, and to encourage creativity. The United States’ belief in that truth is what brings me here today.”
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““I believe the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world, can hold their own governments accountable, they can begin to think for themselves. I can tell you that in the United States, the fact that we have free internet — or unrestricted internet access is a source of strength, and I think should be encouraged.”“
Obama defends Wikileaks and opposes internet censorship (not) (via StoptheWarCoalition)
