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Date Sent: 2014-12-25
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, December 25, 2014

Russia Under Attack: Letter from CEO of Genoil to CEO of JPMorgan

Fox station apologizes to Black Lives Matter protester for editing chant to say 'Kill a cop' -- 12-year-old who wanted 'to die' deemed competent for trial in 9-year-old's murder -- Julian Assange: Why I founded Wikileaks -- 6 Moody airmen arrested in child exploitation sting -- Illinois Woman Files For Trademark Protection On Phrase "I Can't Breathe" -- Police looking for 'a few good hackers' to help doctor dashboard cam footage -- Overstock.com rejoins controversial lobbying group ALEC -- Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You -- Questions Remain Unanswered in Berkeley Police Shooting of Antonio Martin Near Ferguson -- Massachusetts Man Arrested For Posting "Put Wings On Pigs" On Facebook -- Safir to Ignore This Agitprop -- Christmas in America -- Belarus Imposes Moratorium on Rising Consumer Prices; Get Out While You Can -- Police Checkpoints... -- It's Official: The Worldwide Bail-ins Are Coming -- Boeing And BlackBerry Team Up To Make Top Secret Phone -- The Road to Torture -- Cuba, Rand Paul, and a 21st-Century Republican Foreign Policy -- Afghanistan's Still-Broken Government -- Ukraine Scraps Non-Aligned Status, Seeks NATO Membership -- Israel Court Throws Out Objections, Lets Oil Drilling Start in Syria's Golan -- New York City Mayor: Halt Protests, Political Debate Over Police Killings -- Jordanian air force pilot captured by Isis militants after plane came down over Syria -- North Korea as hacker plot is unraveling,...here's the latest proof -- Corporate Predators Want Compensation for Lost Cuban Assets They Stole -- Sony Pictures OKs Christmas Day opening for 'The Interview' -- Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea -- The Sneakiest Way Prosecutors Get a Guilty Verdict: PowerPoint -- 12-24-14 -- Stephen Lendman - Toni Lane Casserly -- North Korea Warns Of Attacks Against White House, Pentagon And Entire ... -- Boston Marathon Bombing: A Primer -- Only the Rich Can Afford to Keep Their Homes -- The Lawless Manipulation of Bullion Markets by Public Authorities -- Hoover lets vacuum owners 3D print their own accessories -- Shock Report: US Paid $5 Billion & Released 5 Taliban Prisoners -- Merry Christmas America: Appeals Court Affirms MERS Right to Steal Your Home

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News Link • Economy - International
Russia Under Attack: Letter from CEO of Genoil to CEO of JPMorgan ...
12-24-2014 • Mike Shedlock
Russia Under Attack: Letter from CEO of Genoil to CEO of JPMorgan Chase on US Foreign Policy Blowback Read Full Story
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Fox station apologizes to Black Lives Matter protester for editing chant to say 'Kill a cop'
12-25-2014 • Rawstory
A Baltimore Fox affiliate station apologized to a Black Lives Matter protester on Monday after the station deceptively edited a chant by protesters to say "Kill a cop." According to Talking Points Memo, the chant, led by protester Tawanda Jone Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Child Protective Services
12-year-old who wanted 'to die' deemed competent for trial in 9-year-old's murder
12-25-2014 • Rawstory
A 12-year-old Michigan boy who stabbed a 9-year-old to death in August -- and then called 911 and said, "I just stabbed somebody, please pick me up, I want to die" -- will be charged as an adult after a psychologist decided he was fit to stand Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Media: Internet
Julian Assange: Why I founded Wikileaks
12-25-2014 • Newsweek
"We would need a publishing system where the only defense was anonymity." Self-censorship occurs because people don't want to come under legal attack and coercive force, they don't want to be killed. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Military
6 Moody airmen arrested in child exploitation sting
12-25-2014 • Air Force Times
6 airmen at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, were among 11 people arrested in a child exploitation sting targeting base personnel. All are charged with obscene Internet contact, computer and electronic pornography and child exploitation. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Activism
Illinois Woman Files For Trademark Protection On Phrase "I Can't Breathe"
12-25-2014 • Jonathan Turley
We have seen people attempt to cash in on political and social expressions under increasingly absurd copyright and trademark laws. Catherine Crump has applied for the trademark on "I Can't Breathe." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police looking for 'a few good hackers' to help doctor dashboard cam footage
12-25-2014 • Rawstory
Previous Next Tech News Seattle Police Department looking for 'a few good hackers' to help it doctor dashboard cam footage Scott Kaufman Scott Kaufman 24 Dec 2014 at 09:35 ET Cop with blurred face (Screen s Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Climate Change
Overstock.com rejoins controversial lobbying group ALEC
12-25-2014 • The Guardian
Controversial lobbying group Alec has received an early Christmas gift from Overstock.com . The online retailer recently rejoined the group, bucking a trend among tech companies, many of which have recently disassociated themselves from it. Alec, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You
10-28-2014 • Micah Lee, The Intercept
The post-Snowden world is a different place. While the NSA and its allied spy agencies still have very little accountability, and while their leaders can still lie to Congress without consequence, they're no longer operating in the dark. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Questions Remain Unanswered in Berkeley Police Shooting of Antonio Martin Near Ferguson
12-25-2014 • Photography Is Not a Crime
Police even provided a surveillance video that shows the suspect, Antonio Martin, raising his arm towards police as one would raise a gun. But police cut the video immediately after that motion, preventing the public from seeing the cop pulling ou Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Criminal Justice System
Massachusetts Man Arrested For Posting "Put Wings On Pigs" On Facebook
12-25-2014 • Jonathan Turley
Charles DiRosa, 27, has been criminally charged in Chicopee, Massachusetts after he posted "Put Wings on Pigs" to Facebook. It was a despicable act after the murder of 2 NY police officers, but it was protected speech. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Safir to Ignore This Agitprop
12-25-2014 • Lew Rockwell blog
Apparently, its reporters and editors have imbibed the circular reasoning of the USSA's Department of [In]Justice: "the use of deadly force against a police officer is almost never justified, while the use of deadly force by police often is… Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Opinion  • Philosophy: Fascism
Christmas in America
12-25-2014
Stephen Lendman
   America
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Human Eye Can See 'Invisible' Infrared Light
12-25-2014 • arclein
"We're using what we learned in these experiments to try to develop a new tool that would allow physicians to not only examine the eye but also to stimulate specific parts of the retina to determine whether it's functioning properly," said senior Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Are We Close to Discovering Planet X?
12-25-2014 • arclein
Is it possible there are other planets out there within our solar system? As Matt Sampson explains some scientists are very excited about this theory, and say they even have evidence to support it. The quest to find a Planet X in our solar system Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Archaeology
Massive Dinosaur Boneyard Gives Up its Secrets
12-25-2014 • arclein
We have uncovered thousands of bones and teeth representing a mixed population of dozens of animals, young and old," Clive Coy, the senior lab technician at the University of Alberta Laboratory for Invertebrate Paleontology, said. "It looks like Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Drones
Amphibious HexH2o drone shoots both aerial and underwater video
12-24-2014 • http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
Readers who checked out our recent article on the Seahorse human-powered airboat may have noticed something at least as impressive in the accompanying video �" a camera-equipped quadcopter that can land on the water to shoot underwater footage. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Inventions
Harvard coloring tech could be an attractive alternative to paint
12-24-2014 • http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
Most people probably don't think of a coating of paint as being a particularly major component of a manufactured item. Read Full Story
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
John Denver....Sunshine On My Shoulders
12-24-2014 • https://www.youtube.com
John Denver....Sunshine On My Shoulders Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - International
Belarus Imposes Moratorium on Rising Consumer Prices; Get Out While You Can
12-24-2014 • Mike Shedlock
Economic illiteracy has absolutely no bounds. The top example of the day comes from Belarus. Read Full Story
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Police Checkpoints...
12-24-2014 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Daisy Luther
Police Checkpoints: I'm Not Doing Anything Wrong, But I Definitely Have Something to Worry About Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - International
It's Official: The Worldwide Bail-ins Are Coming
12-24-2014 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Mark Nestmann
In case you missed the announcement, Cyprus-style bail-ins are coming to a bank near you. Read Full Story
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Why Millions of Christians Will Mourn This Christmas
12-24-2014 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Daniel McAdams
It will be a miserable Christmas for the overseas victims of US interventions this year. Though "regime change" proponents talk of bringing freedom and democracy to the countries they target... Read Full Story
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Diabetes Patients Are Hacking Their Way Toward a Bionic Pancreas
12-24-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Dan Hurley
When 4-year-old Evan Costik was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, his father began sleeping on the floor beside his bed. Read Full Story
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News Link • Inventions
Boeing And BlackBerry Team Up To Make Top Secret Phone
12-24-2014 • http://www.popsci.com, By Dan Moren
This phone will self-destruct in 30 seconds Read Full Story
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mathematician Suggests New Way Get To Mars On A Budget
12-24-2014 • http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep
Sometimes the cheapest distance between two points is not a straight line Read Full Story
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News Link • Torture
The Road to Torture
12-24-2014 • http://www.unz.com, By Philip Giraldi
It's All-American Read Full Story
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Cuba, Rand Paul, and a 21st-Century Republican Foreign Policy
12-24-2014 • http://www.cato.org, By David Boaz
Philip Rucker writes in the Washington Post that presidential hopefuls Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Rand Paul "clashed sharply Friday over President Obama's new Cuba policy, evidence of a growing GOP rift over foreign affairs that could shape the pa Read Full Story
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Still-Broken Government
12-24-2014 • By Kelley Vlahos
The Kerry-brokered Afghan power-sharing agreement hasn't resolved any problems, or appointed any ministers. Read Full Story
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News Link • NATO
Ukraine Scraps Non-Aligned Status, Seeks NATO Membership
12-24-2014 • http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Territory Disputes Likely to Keep Ukraine Out of NATO Read Full Story
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News Link • Israel
Israel Court Throws Out Objections, Lets Oil Drilling Start in Syria's Golan
12-24-2014 • http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
First Major Drilling in Golan in Decades to Begin in Weeks Read Full Story
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
New York City Mayor: Halt Protests, Political Debate Over Police Killings
12-24-2014 • http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Protesters Spurn Call, Continue to Demonstrate Read Full Story
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News Link • Syria
Jordanian air force pilot captured by Isis militants after plane came down over Syria
12-24-2014 • http://www.theguardian.com, Ian Black
Jordanian authorities confirm capture of pilot after first coalition warplane lost since air strikes began in Syria three months ago Read Full Story
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
North Korea as hacker plot is unraveling,...here's the latest proof
12-24-2014 • gotnews.com
The "hackers" did this leak physically at a Sony LAN workstation by downloading the material in much the same way Bradley Manning or Edward Snowden did at their respective posts. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chip Saunders

Feature Article  • Cuba
Corporate Predators Want Compensation for Lost Cuban Assets They Stole
Stephen Lendman
   Cuba
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Feature Article  • Israel - Palestine
Christmas in Palestine
Stephen Lendman
   Palestine
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Sony Pictures OKs Christmas Day opening for 'The Interview'
12-24-2014 • http://www.cnbc.com, Evelyn Cheng
"The Interview" may be coming soon to a theater near you after all. Read Full Story
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea.
12-24-2014 • http://marcrogers.org
Everyone seems to be eager to pin the blame for the Sony hack on North Korea. However, I think it's unlikely. Read Full Story
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News Link • Housing
A Zero-Emissions House That Charges Itself and Your Electric Car Too
12-24-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Margaret Rhodes
Architecture firm Snøhetta has put its stamp on some pretty high profile places, with some very high profile projects: The Oslo Opera House, of course, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in New York City. Read Full Story
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Sneakiest Way Prosecutors Get a Guilty Verdict: PowerPoint
12-24-2014 • http://www.wired.com,By Ken Armstrong
In Washington state earlier this month, an appeals court threw out a murder conviction based on shoddy work by the defense. But the court also took the prosecutor to task for something even stranger: a bad PowerPoint presentation. Read Full Story
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host: Ernest Hancock
12-24-14 -- Stephen Lendman - Toni Lane Casserly (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Stephen Lendman (Progressive businessman, writer) on Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, Castro, foreign policy, etc... - Toni Lane Casserly (CEO of CoinTelegraph Media Group) comes on the show to talk about bitcoin, cryptocurrency in general, and how this plays
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News Link • World News
North Korea Warns Of Attacks Against White House, Pentagon And Entire ...
12-24-2014 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Tyler Durden
North Korea Warns Of Attacks Against White House, Pentagon And Entire "Cesspool Of Terrorism" That Is America Read Full Story
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston Marathon Bombing: A Primer
12-24-2014 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, WhoWhatWhy
As the defining domestic national security event since 9/11, the Boston Marathon Bombing has played a major role in expanding the power of the security state. Read Full Story
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Only the Rich Can Afford to Keep Their Homes
12-24-2014 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Martin Armstrong
Philadelphia prosecutors agreed Thursday to halt efforts to seize the homes of two of the lead plaintiffs in a widely publicized federal suit challenging the city's use of civil forfeiture laws in drug cases. Read Full Story
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Lawless Manipulation of Bullion Markets by Public Authorities
12-24-2014 • Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler
The Federal Reserve and its bullion bank agents are actively using uncovered futures contracts to illegally manipulate the prices of precious metals in order to keep interest rates below the market rate. Read Full Story
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D printed Exo-Prosthetic leg designed to be affordable �" and beautiful
12-24-2014 • http://www.gizmag.com, By Karen Sprey
Although 3D printing is revolutionizing prosthesis manufacturing, enabling fast, accessible, low cost production, aesthetics is lagging behind. Read Full Story
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News Link • Housing
Latest S House prototype can be assembled in just 3 hours
12-24-2014 • http://www.gizmag.com, By Adam Williams
Back in September, we reported on Vo Trong Nghia Architects' ongoing effort to produce a suitable home for Vietnam's poor. Read Full Story
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News Link • 3D Printing
Hoover lets vacuum owners 3D print their own accessories
12-24-2014 • http://www.gizmag.com, By Nick Lavars
3D printing technology may be some way off producing fully functional household appliances, but tiny steps are being made toward helping us out with our domestic duties. Read Full Story
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Non-invasive MRI technique picks up early signs of Alzheimer's disease
12-24-2014 • http://www.gizmag.com, By Nick Lavars
Previous research has indicated that limiting these buildups could be the key to tackling the disease, but scientists from Northwestern University are digging a little deeper. Read Full Story
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The Future of Private Spaceflight (Gallery)
12-24-2014 • http://www.space.com,
Private spacecraft from Sierra Nevada, Virgin, SpaceX and others are pushing boundaries in spaceflight and edging into the domain once held exclusively by government-funded behemoths like Lockheed-Martin. Read Full Story
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Shock Report: US Paid $5 Billion & Released 5 Taliban Prisoners...
12-24-2014 • http://www.dailypaul.com, by richybear
Shock Report: US Paid $5 Billion & Released 5 Taliban Prisoners For Deserter Bergdahl (Video) Read Full Story
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News Link • Surveillance
New Edition of Orwell's 1984 Published with Illustrations and an Introduction...
12-24-2014 • http://www.dailypaul.com, by jrd3820
New Edition of Orwell's 1984 Published with Illustrations and an Introduction from Alan Rusbridger Read Full Story
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Reference Link • Housing
Merry Christmas America: Appeals Court Affirms MERS Right to Steal Your Home
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
It is now legal to steal your home, even if its fully paid for, according to the 8th District Court of Appeals
Entered by: Dave Hodges
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Opinion  • WAR: About that War
US-Led NATO: Humanity's Greatest Threat
12-24-2014
Stephen Lendman
   NATO
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Opinion  • Religion: Believers
Words Eye View
Why were they not in Bethlehem?
12-23-2014
Greg J Dixon
   One of the most intriguing questions of the Christmas story to me has always been, why were the religious leaders not in Bethlehem waiting for their King, if they knew where and when He was to be born?
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Letters to the Editor   • More about Arizona's Top News
Arizona Data Sharing Agreements
Written by: Donna Hancock
   This information was sent to us from several Freedom's Phoenix readers...Thought you might be interested in these links to your Arizona NCES longitudinal data grants and your data sharing agreements.
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Opinion  • Torture
Ray McGovern: My Take
Torture's Time for Accountability
12-23-2014
Ray McGovern
   Rather than questioning Sony's wisdom in producing a film that jokes about something as serious as assassinating a nation's leader, Obama upbraided Sony's producers for the decision to pull the movie from theaters. "I wish they had spoken to
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Feature Article  • World News
Hysteria Over North Korean Hacking Is Unwarranted
Ivan Eland
   In the latest exaggerated media frenzy over a news story, the North Korean hacking of Sony Pictures' computers has been called "cyberterrorism" against "who we are" as a country." First, "terrorism" is word that should probably be retired from public
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News Link • Internet
Cluster of Tor servers taken down in unexplained outage
12-23-2014 • ars technica
On Friday, a warning of a possible effort to hijack significant portions of the anonymizing Tor network was leaked to the Tor Project. And over the weekend, a cluster of servers in a Netherlands' data center that were used as Tor "exit nodes" and Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Foreign Policy
Putin in a Dangerous Cash/Debt Spiral
12-23-2014 • arclein
Putin did provide some good news in his speech. For example, while speaking of the economy, Putin said that taxes will not rise over the next four years. He is also providing an amnesty for the repatriation of money. Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Corruption
Just How Much of Big Bank Fines Are Actually Paid and Who Profits?
12-22-2014 • Jonathan Turley
Those very same taxpayers may be surprised to learn that in many cases, the Banks are able to deduct from their taxes up to 75% of the fines and settlements made with the Justice Department. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
North Korea drops off the Internet in suspected DDoS attack
12-22-2014 • ars technica
North Korea's negligible Internet connectivity appears to have faltered. First spotted by Dyn Research, North Korean routers have been inaccessible, and its scant IP allocation--just 1024 addresses--appears to be offline. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Immigration
Tasers, Drones: Inside The Multibillion-Dollar Business Of Keeping Me Out Of America
12-22-2014 • BuzzFeed
My family emigrated from Mexico when I was young. Now an American citizen, I went to the 2014 Border Security Expo in Phoenix, where the newest military technology meant to target people like us is part of a booming industry. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

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