While an ordinance on city books still considers wearing your bathing suit only on the city's boardwalk and sidewalks lewd behavior, the governing body is weighing the pros and cons of creating a topless beach.
President Obama’s response about the skimmers not being used was, “We can’t take these skimmers from other places in the country because they might have an oil spill!”
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The most dangerous man in the world is safely in Iceland !
Iceland has passed a sweeping reform of its media laws that supporters say will make the country an international haven for investigative journalism.
The new package of legislation was passed unanimously in one of the final sessions of the Icelandic parliament, the Althingi, before its summer break.
Created with the involvement of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, it increases protection for anonymous sources, creates new protections from so-called "libel tourism" and makes it much harder to censor stories before they are published.
"It will be the strongest law of its kind anywhere," said Birgitta Jonsdottir, MP for The Movement party and member of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, which first made the proposals. "We're taking the best laws from around the world and putting them into one comprehensive package that will deal with the fact that information doesn't have borders any more."
50 votes were cast in favor, zero against, one abstained. Twelve members of parliament were not present.
Wikileaks has been involved in the drafting of the package of laws alongside Ms Jonsdottir from the beginning of the process more than a year ago. Its founder, Julian Assange, worked from Iceland on the organisation's release of the incendiary video of an apparently unprovoked American helicopter attack in Iraq that left eighteen people dead, including two journalists.
Mr Assange did not respond to requests for comment via email yesterday. But in February, he wrote: "All over the world, the freedom to write about powerful groups is being smothered. Iceland could be the antidote to secrecy havens ... it may become an island where openness is protected – a journalism haven."
Last week, Assange was expected at a meeting but never appeared there. Julian has only been communicating via Twitter and Emails since some time.
Julian Assange,is readying a new video to be released very soon.
We are all eagerly waiting for this new release of Wikileaks.
Watch for continuing updates, on this story !
Authenticity of Wikileaks video of Iraq killings confirmed by US Military
Please note : We waited as long as possible before publishing this story.
Previous story on OS9USER The Daily Beast reports that Pentagon investigators are trying to track down Julian Assange, the elusive Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks, who they believe is preparing to publish several years of State Department cables allegedly passed by the 22- year-old Manning, now being detained in Kuwait.
The cables contain "information related to American diplomatic and intelligence efforts in the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq," and they could do "serious damage to national security" if made public, government officials told the Beast.
The Daily Beast revealed that:
Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Daily Beast.
In one of his messages to Lamo, obtained by Wired magazine, Manning said: "Hillary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available."
Although it is likely that WikiLeaks has broken US laws in de-encrypting the video from Baghdad and publishing secret documents, the tone of an American official who spoke to the Daily Beast sounded more desperate than threatening. "We'd like to know where he is; we'd like his cooperation in this," the official said.
Watch for continuing updates, as we still have Emails out there !
President Barack Obama stripped Army General Stanley McChrystal of his command of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, replacing him with General David Petraeus, an administration official said.
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"Out of an abundance of caution, the Discover Enterprise removed the containment cap with the riser pipe and move away until they could assess the condition," Adm. Allen said.
"If there are hydrates (crystals), they will probably have to rerun the pipeline and that will a considerable amount longer," Adm. Allen said.
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