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Unprecedented DDoS Attack At Swedish Government, Media Outlets (www.dn.se)
Flu writes: Yesterday, at 19:30 CET, an unprecedented DDOS attack shut down both Swedish government sites and all major news outlets, including www.aftonbladet.se, www.expressen.se, www.svd.se, www.dn.se, www.di.se and others. The attack was announced in advanced in a tweet stating 'The following days attacks against the Swedish government and media spreading false propaganda will be targeted'. A large amount of traffic was detected from Russia. Tension between Russia and Sweden has slowly but steadily intensified during the latest years, causing Swedish relocation of military forces to strategic location and increased cooperation with NATO.
These sites are the largest in Sweden and still they are vulnerable to DDOS. So: ask Slashdot: how do you cope with DDoS? What are the best tools to protect yourself and what to do when the attack is on?
Actually, both government and media sites were attacked. It's misleading to simply say that Assange was in the UK. He was, but at the Ecuadorian embassy. The diplomatic status of the embassy prevented the UK from arresting Assange while he was in the embassy. Your post is quite misleading and inaccurate. And yes, going to Sweden might mean extradition to the US, provided the US requests it and the extradition treaty would allow for it.
Actually, the papers that were targeted had mostly Assange-positive articles. And The current regime in the Kremlin, are those that has been yelling the loudest about how we all deserve to die for standing up to their ministry of lies. Fuck Putin! Sincerely, Sweden
If you have any accusations of the government doing any sort of propaganda then post them, insinuations have never helped against propaganda. Those links are not informative in any way, I would say that the second link is propaganda of the worst kind, and the first is made into propaganda from you by a strange context.
I modded so posted as AC!
From right-wing so it must be wrong!?
I consider myself left-wing, but fact is the fact, your argument just like German media, "you should not be convinced by right-wing populist propaganda, believe me!".
OK, if the links aarlin posted above is from neo-nazi, how about this:
It’s not only Germany that covers up mass sex attacks by migrant men... Sweden’s record is shameful
Now Swedish officials face claims of covering up migrant sex attacks
For the first link, it's so FUNNY that Sweden mentioned 'fighting Russian propaganda war'. I wonder whether if they found out the Russian sub? Oh, how panicked Sweden media reacted as they found a Russian sub sank in early 1900s? or French fighter violated Sweden's airspace was missed identifying as Russian one? or use 'gay ads' to repel Russian submarine?
Tell that to Genghis Khan.
It's quite simple: Assange raped a Swedish woman, and sexually assaulted another one. And now he refuses to face the court. He's a refugee from justice.
In fact, Assange raped no one. He slept with two Swedish women, both of whom were so eager to do so that they bragged about it to their friends for days before and after. He raped neither of them, and in fact neither of them has ever said that he did. When the charges were first brought, Assange waited in Sweden - despite his busy schedule - until it was made entirely clear that the charges were dropped (because the women said he had done nothing wrong). He then travelled to Britain, at which point a wholly new prosecutor popped up (obviously politically motivated) and began saying Assange should be charged (again).
Here is the BBC's "timeline" of the charges against Assange: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...
There are a couple of things missing from this timeline, however. They happened before the BBC's record of events begins.
"In April 2010, WikiLeaks published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed by an AH-64 Apache helicopter, known as the Collateral Murder video. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available to the public". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
April 2010: WikiLeaks published gunsight footage of the murders in Baghdad.
July 2010: WikiLeaks releases "Afghan War Diary"
August 2010: Assange charged with rape (although he had never before been accused of any such behaviour)
The pattern is all too familiar to those of us who are familiar with the US government's methods in moving against anyone it wants to destroy.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
The Interweb screamed "Oh Noes, War Crimes!" in it's collective ignorance of what a war crime actually is. But nobody (Nations) that actually matters or understands combat and the Laws of Land Warfare was upset. They understand what is actually a war crime and what is not.
Every single act of violence done (or provoked) by Americans and their allies in Iraq was a war crime, and that continues to be the case. The invasion was a perfect example of what the Nuremberg Tribunal called "the ultimate international crime" - an unprovoked war of aggression. The USA attacked and invaded Iraq, overthrew its government, killed more than a million of its people, and quite deliberately destroyed its infrastructure. Ask yourself what those Americans in that helicopter were doing even being inside Iraq. They had no business being in the country, let alone killing people for any reason at all. If Iraqis wish to carry guns in their country, that is their affair. (In any case, the objects were not guns - that is just what the bloodthirsty, highly imaginative US soldiers said).
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
I give you that sure. Now when is US going to stop the annexation of Guantanamo Bay? And please, don't give me any of that crap you lawfully rent it from the Cubans against their will. :)
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