Update 8/30/12: Avaaz’s new petition; ScienceNews on benefit to security from released docs
Kevin Gosztola wrapped up his coverage of this week’s pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade for the Firedoglake website.
One of the most important developments of this week’s hearing was that we finally have a “realistic” calendar for future proceedings. Kevin reports that the following dates were announced by Judge Lind today:
- October 17-18: speedy trial witness list to be argued for defense’s speedy trial motion
- October 29 – November 2: speedy trial motion hearing; production motion for witnesses at “unlawful pretrial punishment” motion hearing
- November 27 – December 2: litigation/argument on the “unlawful pretrial punishment” motion
- December 10 – 14: pretrial witnesses and evidentiary issues argued
- January 14 – 18: handling of classified information during the trial
- January 28 – 29: last minute motions before trial
- January 30: voir dire (or screening of potential jurors)
- February 4 – March 15: trial
Avaaz launches new online petition for Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and Julian Assange
Their announcement email begins, “The US and its allies are trying to strangle Wikileaks and declaring open season on whistleblowers who risk everything to make democracies transparent — only an unstoppable surge of global public opinion can end the crackdown!” Check it out at:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/wikileaks/?bERgibb&v=17392
ScienceNews article describes benefit of WikiLeaked docs to security
A new advanced weapon may offer strategy guidance for the war in Afghanistan: math. Using secret U.S. military logs made public by WikiLeaks, scientists have created a mathematical simulation that may help predict the intensity and whereabouts of future insurgent activity… Read the article at ScienceNews here
I often sign online petitions, although I think they have more temporary effect on my feelings of impotence than on whatever cause they are working for … but not this one …
“Avaaz.org was co-founded by Res Publica, a global civic advocacy group, and MoveOn.org …”
Moveon.org is a straight ahead Demoblican front Res Publica is an ‘almost alternate’ news source put there by the msm to displace the real thing. The real target of their petition is your email address.
I’ll take the time to write an email to UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and US President Barack Obama of my own,
I think an individually ‘hand-crafted’ email is worth 100 signatures on a factory petition from a slick advocacy group.
ScienceNews article describes benefit of WikiLeaked docs to security … “With additional data, the model may perform even better, Sanguinetti says”
I’d go for NO more data. Troops home NOW 31 August 10:36 GMT !
I sent my own emails …
http://robinlea.com/pub/BradleyManning/US-UK-Sweden_emails/
All I found were webpage contact forms. David Cameron only allows 1000 characters. You can see what I sent and are welcome to copy anything I wrote … change the signature, OK?
These guys don’t give a damn what anyone thinks, these emails go right in the bitbucket, I’m sure, just as do the petitions. But someone’s punching a counter on how many received … and that’s one more for each of the three stooges above. If everyone who signed these petition took the time individually, instead … well, they’c get less spam from moveon.org, wouldn’t they?