Wiki Wars: In battle to define beliefs, Mormons and foes wage battle on Wikipedia

................... Nicholson learned that if people have questions about the LDS Church and its founder Joseph Smith Jr., they will often turn to Wikipedia for answers first — and trust what they read. Even if they use the search website Google.com, Wikipedia's articles are invariably one of the first listed responses to almost any query.-SNIPMost people don't really understand that they can change anything they want on Wikipedia. All they have to do is click on the "edit" tab on any page. -SNIP-Two main factions battle for control of Mormon articles on Wikipedia. On one side are Mormons who want...

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Wikileaks "sells secret information" - report: Co-founder blows whistle on "criminal outfit"

Whistleblowing outfit Wikileaks has been flogging secret information which it has been collecting to make cash on the side. According to a co-founder, who left the organisation, John Young, Wikileaks has a lucrative sideline flogging intelligence information the site had obtained. Young said he left the site in 2007 because he was worried by the fact that the outfit was mismanaging its funds and that Wikileaks was engaged in the selling of documents. Speaking to WND senior reporter Aaron Klein on his radio program on New York's WABC Radio Young claimed that Wikileaks was a money-making operation and follows the...

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Sarah Palin Under Cyber-Attack from Wikileaks

Exclusive: Sarah Palin Under Cyber-Attack from Wikileaks Supporters in 'Operation Payback'* December 08, 2010 5:12 PM Political Punch Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper The website and personal credit card information of former Gov. Sarah Palin were cyber-attacked today by Wikileaks supporters, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate tells ABC News in an email.

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Is Drudge Under Wiki Attack? (Vanity)

I haven't been able to connect to Drudge Report for a while - any info on whether the site is under Wiki attack with all his focus on them?

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What’s Really Wrong with WikiLeaks - Theodore Dalrymple

We hardly needed WikiLeaks to tell us, among many other things, that Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, is a vulgar man with authoritarian inclinations, or that Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, is interested in sex. It isn’t even particularly reassuring to have our judgments confirmed for us by American diplomatic messages, for if they had said anything different we shouldn’t have believed them in any case. After the first slight frisson of pleasure at the discomfiture of powerful people and those in authority has worn off, a pleasure akin to that of seeing a pompously dignified man slip...

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Wiki Leaks;Roosting Chickens

“Be not decieved, God is not mocked for as a man soweth so shall He also reap…” Galatians 6:7The Wiki Leaks scandal, in which hundreds of thousands of top-secret diplomatic documents have been hacked and published on the internet, is a direct outcome of several negative trends in American and western society, To quote one of Obama’s favorite preachers, “America’s chickens have come home to roost!”. What possible reason could there be for anyone to side with the barbaric Taliban, against the forces of civilisation ? The Taliban, for whom a soccer stadium is an ideal venue for beating and...

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