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According to the report, Assange confirmed that the US state department documents listed on PLUS D are already declassified and much of the information has already been available in the US National Archives and Record Agency.
Assange said that the range of publicly-available documents range in the number of two million and were therefore not efficient to search through, the report said.
The Australian activist said Plus D would make it easier for journalists to conduct investigations, by using a search algorithm that "rivalled Google".
Now this is the kind of cross-promotion I can get behind!
Devlover Digital, the publisher behind such non-nonviolent video games as Hotline Miami, has enlisted the guys behind Viscera Cleanup Detail to help them clean up after their latest game, Shadow Warrior. Players who buy Shadow Warrior will get a free custom standalone game in which they can put on some gloves, pick up ...
The Galaxy Is Saved! Now Clean Up All The Leftover Gore.
Please, please let this become a trend. Every violent game that comes out can have a Viscera add-on minigame in which you have to go around and clean up the guts the main character left behind. Hell, GTA V already followed VCD's lead—through the power of interactive media, we will finally learn to empathize with the re...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) � Heavy fighting between government forces and defected military troops shook the Yemeni capital early today, killing two people in what could signal the start of a power struggle just days after autocratic President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to end his 33-year rule.
The clashes pitted Central Security forces commanded by Saleh�s nephew, Col. Yehia Saleh, against troops from the First Armored Division, headed by Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, who defected and joined the protesters in March.
A security official said one soldier from each side was killed before the fighting stopped around dawn. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
Today�s fighting was the first showdown between military units since Saleh signed a U.S.-backed proposal Wednesday. Saleh transferred power to his vice president, who is to serve as acting president until presidential elections within 90 days.
But Saleh�s spokesman, Ahmed al-Soufi, added further confusion to what exactly the agreement seeking to end the country�s nine-month political crisis means, saying today Saleh has not given up his �constitutional duties� and remains in power.
A pop star who found fame in the 1990s is heading to Sheffield to support a charity event.
Alison Limerick will perform her club classic 'Where Love Lives' - a top 10 hit in 1996 - and other songs at the 02 Academy in Sheffield on Saturday, June 2.
It will be part of the 'A Night of Love, Peace And Nostalgia' event, which also features sets from DJs Shaun Anthony and Andy H.
10 per cent of ticket profits will go to Weston Park Cancer Charity.
Doors open from 9pm and it is for 18s and over.
CRICKET: The Warwick Davis Shield side will play South Burnett in the Falconer Shield final at Slade Park on May5.
The game was postponed from March when South Burnett needed the original date for a replay of its grand final which had been washed out.
Warwick captain Dave Walker said the team would be similar to the combination which beat Lockyer in the Davis Shield final at Slade Park.
"Sean Bryson took six wickets for 12 runs in a match-winning performance with his off spin,” Walker said.
The Toowoomba Rugby League has no fixtures that weekend due to the 47th Battalion Carnival.
With no club footy, the Morris brothers, Nick, Joe and Tom, should be available for cricket and not be faced to choose between sports.
The Warwick team will train at Slade Park in the lead-up to the game.
At the end-of-season cricket presentations, Nick Morris and Cahal Davis won the two trips on the annual Wanderers Cricket Club tour.
The Wanderers team will head west this year and will play Warwick in a tour game on the way back to Brisbane on August24 at Slade Park.
Facilities for underground water will be laid across Slade Park between the May and August games. The Warwick Cricket Association has a grant of $31,000 from the Southern Downs Regional Council to install recycled water.
Q. Each time I write a letter or call one up from storage in Microsoft Word and print it out, a document page prints out after the letter or each copy stating everything about the letter and time printed etc. I waste a lot of costly, acid free paper with this appendage as it makes a print for each copy of the letter. C...
A. What you are seeing is a property page for the document you are working with. This is the same information you would see if you were to click on File and then Properties while the document is open in Word.
I am sure there are times when it might be useful to print this data, but for the most part I would agree that it’s a waste of good paper to have it generated for every document you print.
As an FYI, document properties are stored in every document edited in Word and saved as a DOC file. These properties contain information that includes the computer log in name of the author. It’s not your personal info and it’s of no real use to hackers or anything, but it can give a hint as to who authored the documen...
Just something to think about for those who are interested in digital anonymity.
Riwaka, the rural enclave in the shadow of the Takaka Hill near two large rivers, is used to flooding.
But the severity of this week's deluge wrought by Cyclone Gita caught residents by surprise. Many just had time to grab their children and pets before fleeing to safety.
Those who were within reach of the rescue and welfare teams are now returning to the cost of the damage to houses and crops - and to start the long process of cleaning up.
At the same time it's all hands to the pump at the Civil Defence incident control point in Riwaka, where leader Jen Chaddock said many people remained distraught.
She said the area had been hit hard by flooding and landslides, and teams of Red Cross and Civil Defence workers from throughout the region - including from Marlborough - were now focused on going door to door.
"We've got building inspectors as well and we're doing priorty assessments today, to make sure we're working from house to house.
"We're prioritised areas that were the most damaged and then working through to those less damaged, but everyone's quite important as we work our way through the region."
Over the hill in Marahau, which remains cut off by slips, things sound bad.
Kyle Mulinder was at the the control centre in Riwaka, trying to get help for his friends - Christchurch quake refugees who have tried making a new life here.
He said forestry logs had gone through their home, and lifestyle block. He said they were safe, as luckily they were outside at the time.
"Their animals are okay - we're one rabbit hutch down.
"But if anyone had been there inside...there are logs everywhere. It's just horrific."
Riwaka vegetable grower Frank Hickmott's family have farmed the area for a century.
He said flooding was part of working with the land here. The area's location below a mountain and near a large river make it flood-prone.
"In our case it's just the catchment here."
But cyclone Gita was different, he said.
"It was very quick this time, and very dirty with a lot of local slipping and sediment coming from that. Through our packing shed it was the depth of about a pallet."
Mr Hickmott said it was heartbreaking for apple growers about to harvest. Many had suffered worse damage than he had.
The flooding in the region as a whole, which grows a quarter of the country's apples, has been described as a big set back by industry group Apples and Pears Incorporated.
Down the road Katie and Pete Ferguson are busy sweeping a thick layer of mud from their yard. They have just returned home and said it was the worst flood in the eight years they have lived in Riwaka.
Mrs Ferguson said they did not have time to grab much before they were evacuated.
"It was really overwhelming to come home to this, and sad to see our property like this."
She said the community had rallied to help one another.
"It's so heart-warming, just even strangers popping in and dropping off morning teas or turning up with wheelbarrows. It was so beautiful."
The Fergusons left with their two kids and a dog, plus their neighbours' family - and their dog.
Mr Ferguson said the evacuation centre was not quite prepared for the number of animals that turned up.
Garry Alan, who was busy today pumping out his flooded home and yard, did not hesitate when he was told to leave.
"It happened really fast. There was just steady rain until about 4 o'clock and then it just poured out of the sky.
"By about half-past-five or six o'clock we were told to get out. We were happy to go as we could see it rising really fast, and the police were out the front telling us to go."
While people on ground in Riwaka work around the clock to clean up their properties, the sky above them is also busy - with aircraft heading to and from flood damaged Golden Bay.
Four German tourists had to be rescued early this morning after their campervan was caught in rapidly rising waters in Canterbury, police say.
Water tankers have been deployed in New Plymouth after cyclone Gita knocked out a water pipe which supplies 25 percent of the district's population.
The wild weather eased as Cyclone Gita moved away further today. See how it all went down with RNZ's live blog with RNZ's live blog.
TV Land scraps reruns of "The Cosby Show"
TV Land will stop airing reruns of "The Cosby Show" in the wake of the alleged sexual assault scandal surrounding once-beloved comedian Bill Cosby.
A TV Land representative said the reruns will stop airing immediately for an indefinite time. "The Cosby Show" also was to have been part of a Thanksgiving sitcom marathon.
NBC, meanwhile, pulled the plug on a Bill Cosby comedy that was under development. NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks said Wednesday the Cosby sitcom "is no longer under development." His prospective new series was announced by NBC in January.
Also, a Netflix Cosby stand-up comedy special was indefinitely postponed late Tuesday, as mounting evidence of Cosby's faltering career. They occurred a day after model Janice Dickinson, in an interview with "Entertainment Tonight," became the third woman in recent weeks to allege she'd been assaulted by Cosby -- charg...
The developments, which involve allegations that were widely reported a decade ago as well as new accusations, have gravely damaged the 77-year-old comedian's reputation as America's TV dad at a time when he was launching a comeback. A year ago, a stand-up special -- his first in 30 years -- aired on Comedy Central and...
Former "Cosby Show" star Raven-Symone, spoke out on social media on Wednesday to slam the speculation -- which apparently stemmed from a story on a parody website that claimed she was a victim of Cosby's after the hit show ended.
"I was NOT taking advantage of by Mr. Cosby when I was on the Cosby Show! I was practically a baby on that show and this is truly a disgusting rumor that I want no part of!" she wrote on Instagram. "Everyone on that show treated me with nothing but kindness. Now keep me out of this!"
Recorded live in a subterranean bunker of a studio in Akron, Studio C Sessions performances capture artists and audiences connecting in the closest of confines. In cooperation with The Summit FM, Western Reserve PBS is now broadcasting highlights of these intimate music moments. This show: Birds of Chicago / Cordovas.
Business groups sued the top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday, seeking to overturn a newly adopted rule that gives shareholders greater power to influence corporate decision-making.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable called the rule "arbitrary and capricious" and asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to delay implementing it pending the outcome of the legal challenge.
The SEC said it believes the so-called proxy access rules are lawful and that it would consider and respond to the motion for a stay. Institutional investors vowed to fight the lawsuit and called it an assault on a fundamental shareholder right.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, comes about one month after a divided SEC approved the rule, giving shareholders the ability to nominate corporate directors if the shareholders hold at least 3 percent of the company's stock for at least three years.
The business groups said the SEC failed to properly assess the rule's effects on "efficiency, competition and capital formation as required by law."
The rule is slated to go into effect in mid-November so that shareholders will be able to put forth proposals in the spring, when many publicly traded companies hold their annual meetings.
If the SEC, led by Chairman Mary Schapiro, does not delay implementing the rule, shareholders could take their chances, nominate directors and wait for the court decision.
In the past decade, two other SEC chairmen have tried to adopt proxy access rules with no success. This time, the SEC had backing from the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, which affirms the agency's authority to adopt proxy access rules.
The legislation is expected to help shield the SEC from some legal challenges, but it is not clear if that will be enough to withstand the lawsuit filed on Wednesday.
Activist shareholders have long sought the ability to place their director nominees' names on company proxy statements. That demand increased after the government used billions of tax dollars to prop up companies like American International Group Inc and Bank of America Corp.
"Proxy access will make companies more responsive to their shareowners," said the Council of Institutional Investors, which represents big investors.
"The Council fought long and hard for U.S. shareowners to gain the right to have their board candidates considered alongside those of management," the group said.
Republican SEC Commissioner Kathleen Casey, who voted against the proxy access rule in 2007 and again this year, has said the rule is fundamentally flawed and she does not expect it to survive court scrutiny.
The case is Business Roundtable et al v. SEC, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
They say southern food is good for the soul and these recipes will certainly do the trick. Laura invites Chef Dean Dupuis a New England Native to the Central Valley to show off deep southern flair. The surprising bounty of greens showcased in the episode demonstrates this regions unique micro-climate that is a secret t...
Are white men particularly prone to carrying out the all-too-familiar mass killings of which last week's Aurora shooting is just the latest iteration? Is there something about the white, male, middle-class experience that makes it easier for troubled young men to turn schools and movie theaters into killing fields? In ...
Not every mass murder in recent years has been committed by a middle-class white guy. But as Jamie Utt pointed out in the hours after the Colorado theater massacre, in those rare instances where a man of color is responsible for a shooting spree (as in the 2007 Virginia Tech killings or the 2009 Fort Hood rampage), the...
It seems likely that Islamic extremism did lead Hasan to kill; it's possible that Cho's cultural background did mean that his psychological problems were particularly likely to be ignored. Ethnicity, faith, and social class are key parts of the modern human identity; they are always part of the explanation for why we t...
Perhaps the greatest asset that unearned privilege conveys is the sense that public spaces "belong" to you. If you are — like James Holmes last week, or Charles Whitman, who killed 16 people on the University of Texas, Austin campus in 1966 — an American-born, college-educated white man from a prosperous family, you do...
The vast majority of white men from comfortable backgrounds don't commit mass murder, of course. Our entitlement doesn't manifest in the sense that public spaces are ours to terrorize, but it does show up in the confidence with which we move in those spaces. The certainty of belonging is at the core of our privilege.
When I went off to college at Berkeley, I felt as if I were following in the footsteps of my ancestors. I literally was; my maternal great-grandfathers had both graduated from Cal in the 19th century. I rushed the same fraternity to which my grandfather had belonged in the 1920s. Though I struggled with adolescent anxi...
It was at Berkeley, however, that I learned about white male privilege for the first time. I saw how my sense of belonging served as an invaluable crutch in times of personal crisis. And by witnessing the experiences of roommates and friends from less advantaged backgrounds, I learned that the confidence I took for gra...
That "white boy mojo" can still open all sorts of doors: to boardrooms, to judge's chambers, to country club memberships. It's not that those institutions are still overtly racist (though a few come close). It's not that white men are guaranteed preferential treatment in every setting. It's that white men are raised to...
We don't yet know what drove James Holmes to do the terrible things he did. We only partly understand what drove the likes of Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Charles Whitman, and the many other white men who have committed similar massacres. While each killer had a unique pathology that helped drive him to do the unthinkab...
It's not that white men are more violent. Rates of domestic violence, including homicide, are roughly the same across all ethnic groups. Statistically, murderers are more likely to kill family members and intimate partners than strangers. But while men from all backgrounds kill their spouses, affluent white men are dis...
White men from prosperous families grow up with the expectation that our voices will be heard. We expect politicians and professors to listen to us and respond to our concerns. We expect public solutions to our problems. And when we're hurting, the discrepancy between what we've been led to believe is our birthright an...

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