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* 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U. S. military history.
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Anthropology has been used in Britain to provide an alternative explanation for the Financial crisis of 2007 – 2010 to the technical explanations rooted in economic and political theory.
* 2010 – A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
* 2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
2010 saw a noticeable increase in the number of Iranian tourists visiting Armenia – estimated to be 80, 000.
Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.
The volume of Chinese-Armenian trade soared by 55 percent to $ 390 million in January – November 2010.
From January – September 2010, bilateral trade with the United States measured approximately $ 150 million, on track for about a 30 percent increase over 2009.
According to official Armenian statistics, it rose by 11 percent to $ 91. 6 million in January – November 2010.
* 2010 – The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.
2010 and WikiLeaks
In 2010, Lamo became embroiled in the WikiLeaks scandal involving Bradley Manning, who was arrested after Lamo reported to federal authorities that Manning had leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive U. S. government documents .< ref >
When asked if the WikiLeaks of 2010 would damage American relations with other countries, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates noted that " governments deal with the United States because it's in their interest, not because they like us, not because they trust us, and not because they believe we can keep secrets.
An example of this is the 2010 DDoS attack against major credit card companies by supporters of WikiLeaks.
On December 9, 2010, Ellsberg appeared on The Colbert Report where he commented that the existence of WikiLeaks helps to build a better government.
In the 2010 affair surrounding the disclosure of U. S. diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks, Kristol has spoken out strongly against the organization and suggested using " our various assets to harass, snatch or neutralize Julian Assange and his collaborators, wherever they are ".
In 2010, the magazine supported WikiLeaks in publishing leaked materials from the United States State Department, along with The Guardian, The New York Times, El País, and Le Monde.
In November 2010, anticipating the possible indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Act, critics of that legal strategy said that the broad language of the Act could make news organizations and anyone who reported, printed, or disseminated information from Wikileaks subject to prosecution as well.
On 11 December 2010, Libération started hosting a mirror of the WikiLeaks website, including the United States diplomatic cables and other document collections, in solidarity with WikiLeaks, in order to prevent it from being " suffocated " by " governments and companies that were trying to block functioning without even a judicial decision ".
For example, several technical journalists and social commentators, such as Mark Pesce, have interpreted the WikiLeaks phenomenon and the United States diplomatic cables leak in early December 2010 as a precursor to, or an incentive for, the creation of a techno-utopian transparent society.
In December 2010, MasterCard blocked all payments to WikiLeaks due to claims that they engage in illegal activity.
On December 9, 2010 the servers of MasterCard underwent a massive attack as part of a Operation Avenge Assange for closing down payments of whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks.
Regular Counterpunch contributor Israel Shamir was part of the WikiLeaks organisation and an associate of its director, Julian Assange, and in late 2010 and early 2011 wrote a series of exclusive articles for CounterPunch drawing on materials from the United States diplomatic cables leak.
1 priority "; Russian organized crime was reported to have a stronger grip in the French Riviera region and Spain in 2010 ; and Russia was branded as a virtual " mafia state " according to the WikiLeaks cables.
At a December 16, 2010 hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on the subject of " the Espionage Act and the Legal and Constitutional Issues Raised by WikiLeaks ," Conyers " argue strongly against prosecuting WikiLeaks in haste-or at all.
On December 1, 2010, WikiLeaks release a leaked US Embassy London diplomatic cable dating back to 2009 exposed British and US calculations in creating the marine nature reserve.
The review focused mainly on Barack Obama, as well on other political events such as the Tea Party movement, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, in Iceland, the Greece's Debt Crisis, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Mosque at Ground Zero, WikiLeaks, the campaign finance reform in the United States, Charles B. Rangel, Stanley A. McChrystal, Hamid Karzai, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, and the United States elections, 2010.
King criticized the activities of WikiLeaks and in December 2010 suggested that the group be designated a " terrorist organization " and treated as such by U. S. agencies.
SIPRNet was one of the networks accessed by Bradley Manning, who allegedly leaked the video used in WikiLeaks ' " Collateral Murder " release as well as the source of the US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks in November 2010.
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