Talk about crazyness. I am sitting here right now, and I want to kick something. I am fuming with anger, and upset with despair. Most species live, on average, a hundred-thousand years, the human race is just about that age.

Indy Media: "Evidence is beginning to mount that the authorities of at least four countries (Switzerland, Italy, U.K. and U.S.A.) are involved in last week's seizure of two of Indymedia's servers that brought down more than 20 of the Indymedia network's web sites and several internet radio streams. Indymedia has yet to receive any official statement or information about what the order entailed or why it was issued."

The Register: "The FBI yesterday seized a pair of UK servers used by Indymedia, the independent newsgathering collective, after serving a subpoena in the US on Indymedia's hosting firm, Rackspace. Why or how remains unclear.

Rackspace UK complied with a legal order and handed over hard disks without first notifying Indymedia. It's unclear if the raid was executed under extra-territorial provisions of US legislation or the UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). Provisions of RIPA make it a criminal offence to discuss warrants, so Rackspace would not be able to discuss the action with its customer Indymedia, or with the media."

Check this site often for updated information on the raid by US, Switzerland, France, and Italy.

http://www.indymedia.org/en/static/fbi

I am going to be placing a local copy of this site on my servers.

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