An internal Lonely Planet email reveals a rather amusing little prank from the publishing house’s Czech & Slovak Republics guidebook that clearly slipped past the subs.
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UK plans to create Internet Piracy General with power to appoint militias, create laws
A UK government source claims a new Bill will give the Secretary of State unprecedented powers to pass laws on online piracy without debate and confer investigative and enforcement powers to record labels and movie studios, giving them access to personal information and files.
SBS: Your chance to come up with ideas for us for free!
An internal email from SBS management announces an exciting opportunity for SBS staffers: come up with some TV show ideas, which may or may not be used, and you almost certainly won’t get paid for. Where do we sign up?
More revelations from Sarah Palin’s book
The contents of Sarah Palin’s new book, Going Rogue, are beginning to leak out. Amongst the revelations, Palin claims she was hushed-up from speaking on election night and the McCain campaign slugged her with a $500k legal bill.
The axe is about to fall at Newsweek
Politico has its hands on an internal memo from Newsweek editor, Jon Meacham, informing staff that about a dozen job are about to be cut.
Crikey Says: The ATO’s business needs: lest we forget
The ATO has asked tax office managers to balance their “business needs” against a minute of silence for Remembrance Day next week.
The lost Sarah Palin speeches
Read the concession speech the Republican Party wouldn’t let Sarah Palin make after the 2008 US Presidential election, plus the victory speech she never got to make.
Was Melbourne Model stoush behind the Law dean’s departure?
A damning series of internal documents obtained by Crikey reveals widespread anger from within Melbourne Uni’s law faculty over changes that would have seen professional staff sacked and replaced with senior bureaucrats.
What Dick Cheney didn’t know about Valerie Plame
Notes from an FBI interview with former US VP Dick Cheney about the 2003 outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame have been released, revealing Cheney claimed “near total amnesia” on the whole scandal. Read the list of the important events and dates he just can’t recall.
JPMorgan knew about insider trading eight years ago
Internal documents from JPMorgan Chase reveal the company knew about insider trading allegations against Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and his associates as far back as 2001.
Politico and Wash Post to engage in DC territorial pissing
Online political news site Politico is going to launch a local Washington DC edition of the site, headed up by the former editor of WashingtonPost.com. It’s a pretty direct attack on The Washington Post’s DC supremacy, and HuffPo has its hands on an internal memo that outlines the plans.
Democratic donors recieving White House perks
The Washington Times has scored internal documents it claims show Barack Obama has been rewarding major donors to the Democratic Party with exclusive access to the White House, administration advisers and important meetings.
Turnbull digs dirt for headlines
The Oz has its hands on a leaked email from Malcolm Turnbull’s office, urging press secretaries to attack “fat cat public servants not caring about taxpayers, pollies with snouts in the trough, special interest groups getting undeserved handouts” to garner more attention in the press.
The UK police’s “spotter cards” for protesting troublemakers
Check out the highly confidential “spotter cards” used by British bobbies to identify “troublemakers” at protests — just one part of their controversial “overt surveillance” approach. One “troublemaker” responds here.
‘Chaosistan’? US General spills secret CIA report
The US commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, accidentally let slip about a secret CIA report called “Chaosistan”, which advocates letting Afghanistan become a “Somalia-like haven of chaos that we simply manage from outside.”
The new-look Facebook
Mashable has gotten its geeky little mitts on leaked details of Facebook’s latest redesign. (Spoiler: it looks a whole lot like the current Facebook.)
Read the damning toxic waste report oil giant Trafigura tried to cover up
Wikileaks has a copy of the “Minton report” — exposing how toxic waste dumping by oil company Trafigura hospitalised thousands in Africa — which the UK media was suppressed from reporting.
Seven’s new digital channel: “Channel Mate”
Details of Seven’s second digital channel have leaked after the network filed trademark applications this week for its new logo. It looks like it will be called “Channel Mate” or just “Mate”, with “sonic waves” or a “stylised silhouette of a man” as its logo.
The greatest films never made in 2009
Each year, Hollywood insiders circulate a list of the year’s best screenplays doing the rounds that never actually got picked up by a studio, ominously titled The Black List. The full list for last year’s films, along with files of all the screenplays, has been leaked online here.
Memo: We’re not a happy team at The Advertiser
Some folk at the Adelaide Advertiser seem less than happy. Fresh from the Crikey fax machine (well it did come from Adelaide) this morning was an angry internal memo.
How to avoid an email phishing attack
Thousands of private email usernames and passwords were released online this week after a phishing attack on Hotmail. But what the phrig is “phishing” and how can you avoid being the next victim?
America and Israel take a leak on Russia and Iran Revealed: the most common Hotmail password
After examining more than 10,000 Hotmail passwords that were leaked this week, a bit of research has revealed the most popular password of choice. And surprisingly, it’s not ‘password’.
