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Window on Eurasia: 2014 a ‘Turning Point for Russia’ Because of Putin’s KGB Psychology, Eidman Saysby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:25 PM

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Staunton, December 18 – 2014 has been a real “turning point” in Russian history, one comparable to 1929 and marked by “the beginning of a confrontation of Russia with the West and the establishment in the country of an aggressive regime close to a fascist one which is in a state of permanent war” both internally and externally, according to Igor Eidman.

Both the external and internal dimensions of this change, the Russian analyst says, have potentially “unexpected and dangerous” consequences for their author, Russian President Vladimir Putin. And both the change and these consequences reflect his personality and the nature of the authoritarian regime he has set up (svoboda.org/content/article/26744737.html).

In the past, Putin had been more cautious, reflecting his careerist approach and his calculations about the world around him. But now, on the basis of his assessment of the situation, Putin believes his time has come, and consequently, he is acting on the values that he absorbed as a KGB officer 30 years ago.

Those values include, Eidman says, “Soviet imperialism, hatred to the West (above all to the US as the main potential opponent), contempt for democratic values and human rights, and a view of the republics of the former USSR and the countries of Eastern Europe as the natural vassals of Russia.”

To make his career, the current Kremlin leader served “’democrats’ Sobchak and Yeltsin” and was cautious when he first was elevated to the presidency. But now he has decided that the most favorable time has come “for the realization of his ambitions,” a conclusion that his “emotional reaction” to the Ukrainian Maidan accelerated.

He was pushed in this direction by the fact that he has surrounded himself with others who have a background in the Soviet and Russian security services and thus view the world much as he does, Eidman continues. But he bears responsibility for it because from his point of view, “a confrontation with the West” helps him personally.

Such a confrontation inevitably increases the importance of the siloviki, justifies harsh measures, and draws on the patriotism of the population. Moreover, 2014 in Putin’s view turned out to be just the right time to move in that direction. Economic growth, based on high oil prices, was coming to an end. And consequently, he needed “a small victorious war.”

Putin understands, Eidman says, that an economic downturn could cost him the support of the population and lead some to democracy as many did in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2008. By creating an enemy that the country must oppose with either a hot or cold war, the Kremlin leader effectively restricted the opportunities of the opposition.

According to Eidman, “the shift to an expansionist foreign policy course was inevitable” because it was the product of the “internal organization of the Russian regime, its essence,” and itself the product of Putin’s personality.

“Putin’s system,” he continues, “corresponds to the classic definitions of fascism. At the center of ‘Putinism’ is the idea of national rebirth and revenge (for defeat in the cold war), a cult of a national leader, the priority of state interests over the rights and freedoms of citizens, the search for national traitors, militarism, sexism, and homophobia.”

Revenge is at the center of fascism and Nazism, Eidman says, “an idee fixe” for both Putin and Hitler and the driving force behind their actions. Other governments, including the Soviet, had elements of this, but “the Putin regime is more dangerous for the world than any post-Stalin leadership of the USSR.”

The reason for that conclusion is that unlike the late Soviet period, with its collegial Politburo that was inclined toward caution, Putin is completely in charge. He personally takes all the decisions on his own, and thus “peace on the planet depends on the state of his psychic health.”

Disturbingly, the Kremlin leader has shown himself “ever more inadequate,” and thus the risks that he might do something truly frightening are all too real. “It is perfectly clear,” Eidman concludes, that if the West does not stop him in Ukraine, “he will not stop but instead go further.”

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US General: Islamic State Fight to Take at Least 3 Yearsby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:23 PM

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The general in command of U.S. forces involved in the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria said on Thursday he thought it would take a minimum of three years to achieve a turning point against the group. Asked at a Pentagon briefing about progress on the ground, Army Lieutenant General James Terry said the first U.S. air strikes had taken place only four months ago and counseled patience, estimating it would "at least take a minimum of three years."

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Extreme Russian Nationalism Widespread in Soviet Security Organs, Archives Show by Paul Goble
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:22 PM

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Staunton, December 18 – The Soviet security agencies from Lenin on were infected by an often vicious Russian nationalism which led their officers to attack non-Russians far more frequently than Russians, according to a new study based on archival sources by Aleksey Teplyakov, a Novosibirsk historian.

Many researchers Russian and foreign have considered the national aspects of Soviet political repression, he says, but “up to now there have not been any which allow for an assessment of the presence of chauvinist and nationalist attitudes among the Chekist corporation of the influence of these subjective factors on the conduct of repressive policies.”

Indeed, he points, many have focused on the presence of a significant stratum of non-Russians within the Soviet secret police and other security agencies to conclude that the organs, however repressive, were not chauvinist and anti-Russian (Shovinizm i natsionalizm v organakh VChK-MGB-MVD SSSR, in Sovetskiye natsii i natsionalnaya politika v 1920-1950 gody, Moscow ROSSPEN, 2014, pp. 649-657, posted online here).

But in fact, these organs were infected by chauvinism, and those attitudes were reinforced rather than reduced by the constant campaigns of repressions against one or another non-Russian people, with some of the Chekists working in the republics acting like “typical colonial bureaucrats” and routinely expression “aggressive-chauvinist attitudes” toward the minorities.

Teplyakov says that within the Soviet secret police, chauvinism ranged from dismissive comments about “’backward Asiatics’ or ‘little Jews’” to the belief that non-Russian groups should be subject to “broad ethnic purges” even if the cases against the members of such groups had to be fabricated.

During the Russian civil war, the Chekists sought to decapitate the national movements in Kazakhstan, Kalmykia, Gorno-Altay, Yakutia (Sakha), Central Asia and Azerbaijan even as they recruited other non-Russians to carry out such campaigns. And these campaigns frequently were over-fulfilled because of the attitudes of the Chekists involved.

In March 1922, for example, Cheka commanders took note of the fact that “the internal forces suppressing the uprising in Yakutia could only with difficulty “be kept from wiping out the Yakuts” involved. Throughout the 1920s, Chekists killed with impunity members of the numerically small peoples of the North as well as others simply because they were not Russian.

Stalin’s increasingly nationalist course in the 1930s only exacerbated this tendency. Stalin himself, Teplyakov points out, told one official that the organs should force all of the non-Russians to fall on their knees and then execute them “like mad dogs.” The Chekists needed little encouragement, the archives show.

After World War II, the situation deteriorated further, with the organs sometimes provoking nationalist risings and then using them as an excuse to imprison, torture or kill members of non-Russian nationalities. That happened with the Nentsy, the Baltic nations, the Ukrainians and others as well, the archives show.

Chauvinism increased in the ranks of the organs on a continuous basis during the last years of Stalin’s reign. The state security minister in the Buryat-Mongol ASSR said that as long as he was in office, “not one Buryat would be allowed to be in a leading position” anywhere in the republic. He was subsequently punished. But others did much the same elsewhere without being called to account.

The Chekists overwhelmingly welcomed Stalin’s anti-Semitic campaign. Although there had been many Jews among the Chekists in the 1920s, their numbers had dwindled in the 1930s during the Great Terror, and members of the Soviet organs routinely talked about the need to get rid of the Jews inside their ranks and elsewhere.

While Russian and Russianized Chekists were allowed to flaunt their chauvinism, those Chekists who were of non-Russian origin were expected to behave as internationalists, which in the Soviet context meant being pro-Moscow and against their own peoples as well as other non-Russians.

Sometimes the non-Russian Chekists sought to insure themselves against attack by posing as more Russian than the Russians. An example of this was the response of a Jewish Chekist to whom Patriarch Tikhon spoke in Hebrew. M.P. Shreyder responded that he “lives in Russia and doesn’t need any other language but Russian.”

But non-Russian Chekists sometimes could not restrain themselves from reacting to the chauvinism of their Russian colleagues. I.P Yakovlev, a Yakut who was a senior official of the Ministry of State Security in the Yakut SSR once burst out “the Russians are bastards … they are stealing Yakutia and wreaking havoc on the Yakuts.”

Because it was found that he was drunk, Yakovlev got away with this with only a minimal punishment. Others were not so lucky. N.Ch.Tovarishtay, the head of the interior ministry administration in Tuva said there were too many Russians about and that they should all be “shot.”

The Tuvan was expelled from the party, fired, but then restored when it was established that he too had been drunk when he said that.

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Russians Set Off on Spending Spree as Ruble's Fate Remains Uncertain by By Alexander Panin
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:19 PM

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At 8 p.m. on Wednesday, GUM, a historic chic shopping mall near the Kremlin, had more salespeople than customers.

Vladimir Putin: Russia will emerge stronger from rouble crisis – video by Guardian Staff
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:19 PM

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In Russian president Vladimir Putin's annual end-of-year news conference, he tell journalists Russia will emerge stronger from the crisis as the rouble continues to edge lower against the dollar and the euro. He says his decision as to whether he will run again for president in 2018 will depend on the country's situation Continue reading...

Putin: Russian Economy to Rebound in 2 Years
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:19 PM

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Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual end-of-the-year news conference Thursday, tackling questions on the Russian economy, the crisis in Ukraine and Russian relations with the west. VOA's Jeff Custer reports.

Franken: 'I'm Ready for Hillary'
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:18 PM

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On Tuesday's broadcast of MSNBC's "The Cycle," Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) got out in front of his Democratic colleagues and said he would support former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president, assuming she runs for the 2016 Democratic Party nomination.

Partial transcript as follows:

FRANKEN (D-MN): I think that Hillary would make a great president. I haven't announced that I'm supporting her, but -- does this count, I guess? Maybe this counts.

MELBER: Here's the question, do you need to see who all the candidates are first before you publicly endorse her?

FRANKEN: No, no. I think that, you know, I'm Ready for Hillary. I mean, I'm -- I think that -- we've not had someone this experienced, this tough, and as -- she's very, very impressive.

MELBER: It was an endorsement delivered as only Franken could.

MELBER: So, are you endorsing her today?

FRANKEN: If this is what you call an endorsement, I guess, yes. So, yes.

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Obama's Unilateral Executive Actions the Most Since Truman
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:17 PM

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Barack Obama and his spokespeople have claimed he has used unilateral executive action far less than previous presidents, citing his lesser number of executive orders.

It’s not true, according to USA Today. Obama has evaded scrutiny of his massive unilateral actions by using executive memoranda instead of executive orders. The memoranda have the same power to make law as executive orders, but allow Obama to fly under the radar due to various considerations:

Executive orders are numbered, memoranda are not;
Executive orders are indexed, memoranda are not;
Proclamations and executive orders are published in the Federal Register before memoranda;
In 1962, President Kennedy issued Executive Order 11030, which stated that executive orders were required to have a "citation of authority." Memoranda do not require such a citation.

Obama and his defenders have made a habit of decrying critics ripping Obama for his unilateral actions:

Obama, July, 2014: "The truth is, even with all the actions I've taken this year, I'm issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years. So it's not clear how it is that Republicans didn't seem to mind when President Bush took more executive actions than I did."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, on the floor of the Senate, July, 2014: "While Republicans accuse President Obama of executive overreach, they neglect the fact that he has issued far fewer executive orders than any two-term president in the last 50 years."

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, February 2014: "There is no question that this president has been judicious in his use of executive action, executive orders, and I think those numbers thus far have come in below what President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton did."

As of Tuesday. Obama has issued 195 executive orders and 198 presidential memoranda. Obama’s number of memoranda dwarfs his predecessors; he has signed 33% more in his six-year tenure than Bush did in eight years, and 45% more than Bill Clinton did in his eight years. The combination of orders and memoranda is the greatest since Harry Truman. Obama is the first president to sign more executive memoranda than executive orders, preserving his patina of eschewing unilateral action.

Some of the memoranda Obama has issued are quite significant, including: developing a pilot program to implement a new retirement savings account for low-income workers, instructing the Department of Education to permit various borrowers to top their student loan payments at 10% of income, forcing federal law enforcement agencies to track any firearm involved in a federal investigation, and allowing more availability of relevant executive branch records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

That list does not include Obama’s recent forays into the immigration issue, which included supervising a transformation of the U.S. immigration system. Every single move Obama made as part of his immigration plan in November came without an executive order.

Kenneth Lowande, writing in Presidential Studies Quarterly, said,

"If you look at some of the titles of memoranda recently, they do look like and mirror executive orders." He added that memoranda elicit less notice, saying an "executive order immediately evokes potentially damaging questions of 'imperial overreach.'"

The salient point of memoranda is that they are binding on future administrations unless a future president explicitly revokes them. The Office of Legal Counsel has stated that executive memoranda and executive orders are essentially the same.

The Office of Legal Counsel itself admitted the huge number of Obama’s memoranda the very first year he was in office, asking for a 14.5% budget increase, claiming that part of the reason was "the large number of executive orders and presidential memoranda that has been issued." Obama hasn’t stopped with orders and memoranda; in the area of national security alone, he has written roughly 30 presidential policy directives, which a federal court ruled are "the functional equivalent of an executive order."

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Hamas Removed From European Union Terror List by Court
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:17 PM

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The General Court of the European Union has removed Hamas from their list of terrorist organisations.

But the effect of annulling the decision to name the group on the terror list are maintained temporarily, meaning that the funding freeze against the group will remain for the three months until any appeal has been heard.

Hamas appealed the Council's Common Position back in September 2010, eight years after its military wing the Izz a-Din al-Qassam was banned by the EU’s Council of Ministers.

But after a series of suicide bombings in 2003, the organisations’s social and political divisions were included which meant all of their funds, economic resources and property rights were frozen.

Hamas put to the court that there had been a ‘manifest error of assessment, as Hamas is a legitimately elected government and…cannot be placed on a list of terrorists’.

And the court ruled that the Council made ‘procedural errors’ when it maintained Hamas on the list, basing its decision on media and internet reports rather than formal statistics and actual recordings of events. The decision today therefore annulled the inclusion of Hamas as a terrorist organisation but the suspension of the effects of that annulment gives the council time to decide what to do.

If the Council does nothing then in three months Hamas will be removed from the list permanently, meaning it will have full access to any monies, financial assets and the right to act in any commercial way it wishes so long as they comply with existing laws.

But this time period is long enough for the Council to adopt a new decision if it wished to do so.

Given the number of countries in the EU who are recognising Palestine as an independent state and the pro Palestinian movement within the European Parliament, there may be a reticence by some leaders, particularly on the left, to challenge the latest decision.

If the Council appeals this decision to the EU Court of Justice, the highest court in the European Union, then the annulment will only take effect once that appeal is closed. Currently this takes around 16-18 months.

A spokesman for the General Court told Breitbart London:

"The Court has made quite clear in its judgment and in the press release that it is not ruling on whether Hamas is a terrorist organisation. The reason for the annulment is procedural, hence the 3 month period for the Council to correct that error if it so wishes.”

The decision was condemned by Conservative MEP Charles Tannock.

"This is a wrong decision." he said. "It is plainly inappropriate given Hamas's long track record of supporting suicide bombers, the reported use of human shields, child combatants, extrajudicial executions and rocket attacks on innocent civilians. I do not believe the decision is safe either."

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Andrea Mitchell Rejects Own Network's Poll Showing Americans Agree with CIA Interrogation Tactics
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:17 PM

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Andrea Mitchell apparently disagrees with her own network's polling services after dismissing a poll that shows that Americans agree with the CIA's advanced interrogation tactics.

Mitchell was on her MSNBC show on Tuesday, December 16, when the topic of the recent Senate CIA report came up. While she reported her own network's polling, she certainly didn't seem to believe it.

The poll Mitchell wasn't buying was an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released earlier that day. The poll revealed that 51 percent of respondents felt that the interrogation practices used during the Bush era were acceptable. Only 28 percent said they went too far and were wrong.

But speaking to NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, Mitchell warned her audience against her own network's polling, saying that polling is "always an imprecise measure because of the way questions are asked."

Engel seemed to agree with Mitchell's intimation that the poll could be wrong. He told Mitchell that those who answered the poll were just responding emotionally and that they might be proven morally wrong by "history."

Then Mitchell seemed to announce her distrust of democracy itself, saying, "Should public opinion really be setting policy?"

Engel was happy to join Mitchell with the mistrust of the people, replying, "Exactly."

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FBI: 199 Americans Kidnapped in Mexico in 2014
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:16 PM

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MCALLEN, Texas -- Almost 200 Americans have been kidnapped in Mexico this past year; 79 of those kidnappings took place just south of the Texas border in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas, according to an FBI interview with Breitbart Texas.

While the Mexican government continues to praise their security campaign in Tamaulipas, shootouts, kidnappings, extortions and highway robberies continue to plague the border state.

In Mexico a person is kidnapped every six hours, according to the statistics published by Mexico’sNational Citizens Observatory, a non-profit organization that keeps track of crime figures.

Breitbart Texas met with FBI Special Agent Michelle Lee who spoke about the number of kidnappings in Mexico that the agency has investigated in 2014. While in 2006, the agency only had 26 kidnappings, so far this year the agency has looked into 199 kidnappings.

“Kidnapping for ransom remains a very rare occurrence in the United States,” Lee said.

However in Mexico, kidnapping has become a moneymaker for criminals looking to make a quick profit.

“In about fifty percent of all the kidnappings of U.S. citizens in Mexico a ransom demand is made,” Lee said. “In those instances a financial gain is generally the motive and typically it is a crime of opportunity.”

The agent advises to avoid displaying cash or other items that could make a victim attractive to kidnappers.

Currently the U.S. Department of State has a standing travel advisory warning Americans about the security conditions in Mexico and warns them about traveling on highways at night and of the potential dangers in each state.

The FBI has a strong working relationship with Mexican federal authorities including an elite anti-kidnapping unit that has allowed the agency to solve the majority of the kidnappings in Mexico, she said.

In the other fifty percent of crimes where a ransom call is not made there is some connection with organized crime.

“In those cases you may have the victim involved in illicit activity, or the victim being related to someone who is involved or in some cases it may be a case of mistaken identity where the person targeted was in fact tied to criminal activity,” Lee said.

Regardless of the ties, the agency investigates all cases accordingly with the victim’s safety as their highest priority, she said.

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Michael Moore: 'Thank U Obama' For Backing Down On Cuba
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:05 PM

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Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore congratulated Cuba this afternoon for “winning” in its ongoing struggle with the United States.

“Cuba 1, USA 0,” he wrote on Twitter. “Congrats on winning the longest game on record.”

Moore suggested that critics of President Obama’s new policy were being disingenuous.

“OK fellow Americans, let's not be sore losers!” he wrote cheerily on Twitter.

America, he asserted, was a “pissy whiny neighbor” that had finally “grown up” as a result of Obama’s signaled changes.

“Finally, another piece of crazy exits the American Way,” he said. “Cuba's pissy whiny neighbor grows up. Thank u Obama.”

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Jeb Bush: 'I Have No Problems' Pushing for Amnesty Bill During GOP '16 Primary
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:04 PM

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Just hours after he announced his plan "actively explore" a 2016 presidential run on Monday, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would have "no problems" pushing for comprehensive immigration reform in a GOP primary.

"We've got to protect the borders, enforce the law, be respectful of the rule of law, and at the same time be able to encourage young aspirational people to come to our county," Bush, who has said that illegal immigration is an "act of love," told a local Miami television station. "It's a win-win; I have no problems advancing that idea."

When NBC 6 mentioned that "a lot of your base disagrees with that" position, Bush replied, "We'll see. If I run, we'll see."

Though he is aware that the conservative base distrusts him because of his support for massive amnesty legislation, which would also increase the number of guest-worker permits for foreigners, and Common Core, Bush seems intent on not backing down from his more moderate positions.

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ISIS Slaughters 150 Females in Iraq for Refusing to Marry, Have Sex with Them
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:04 PM

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Iraq’s Ministry of Human Rights claims the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) murdered 150 women simply because they refused to marry or perform sexual acts with the terrorists.

"At least 150 females, including pregnant women, were executed in Fallujah by a militant named Abu Anas Al-Libi after they refused to accept jihad marriage," said the Ministry. "Many families were also forced to migrate from the province’s northern town of Al-Wafa after hundreds of residents received death threats."

The militants buried the victims in mass graves in the city. The families who left lost many children after they were stranded in the desert.

The Islamic State slaughtered over 50 people from the Al Bu Nimr tribe in Iraq’s Anbar Province on November 2. The massacre included six women and four children. Witnesses said the militants lined up the victims, whom they "publicly killed one by one." Over seventeen people were kidnapped, as well. Militants murdered 98 people from the same tribe 24-48 hours before the massacre. The tribe is Sunni, which holds the same belief of Islam as the Islamic State, but now, they view the tribe as a threat.

Militants claim they adhere to a very conservative interpretation of Islam, yet they run brothels and keep sex slaves. They even allow women from the West to perform "sexual jihad" for the terrorists. A 2013 edict allows this behavior "to boost the morale of fighters." Islamic State issued its own edict in June after conquering towns in Iraq. Jihadists set up brothels filled with kidnapped females and placed British women in charge. One Yazidi sex slave begged the West to bomb the brothel at which she was held to end her suffering. A video in November showed militants laughing and joking about buying female Yazidi slaves.

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Is Cyberattack on Sony Disruptive Enough to Constitute an Act of War Against US?
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:04 PM

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The government of North Korea's suspected involvement in the cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment has not been officially confirmed.

North Korea is suspected of hacking Sony in retaliation for an American comedy film about a fictional assassination attempt on leader Kim Jong Un.

Mike Rogers (R-MI), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, recently told the Los Angeles Times that North Korea is likely behind the Sony hacking scandal and federal investigators are getting close to confirming that.

Kim Masters, the editor-at-large for The Hollywood Reporter, in an appearance on CNN, echoed Rogers comments, saying North Korea is likely the culprit, adding that Sony refuses to admit it.

Does the Hacking of Sony Constitute an Act of War?

According to definitions by both the White House and the Pentagon, a cyberattack emanating from a foreign country constitutes an act of war.

The White House’s cyberspace strategy mentions:

States have an inherent right to self-defense that may be triggered by certain aggressive acts in cyberspace….When warranted, the United States will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country All states possess an inherent right to self-defense, and we recognize that certain hostile acts conducted through cyberspace could compel actions under the commitments we have with our military treaty partners We reserve the right to use all necessary means—diplomatic, informational, military, and economic—as appropriate and consistent with applicable international law, in order to defend our Nation, our allies, our partners, and our interests.

The unclassified version of the Pentagon’s cyber strategy states:

The Department will work with interagency and international partners to encourage responsible behavior and oppose those who would seek to disrupt networks and systems, dissuade and deter malicious actors, and reserve the right to defend these vital national assets as necessary and appropriate.

Three unnamed defense officials who read the classified version of the strategy told The Wall Street Journal in May 2011 that “it concludes that the Laws of Armed Conflict—derived from various treaties and customs that, over the years, have come to guide the conduct of war and proportionality of response—apply in cyberspace as in traditional warfare.”

Both the White House and the Pentagon list intellectual property and identity theft as a form of cyber crime.

However, they do not spell out when a cyberattack is serious enough to constitute an act of war.

The Wall Street Journal's May 2011 article mentioned that “one idea gaining momentum at the Pentagon is the notion of ‘equivalence.’ If a cyber attack produces the death, damage, destruction or high-level disruption that a traditional military attack would cause, then it would be a candidate for a ‘use of force’ consideration, which could merit retaliation.”

David Inserra, a research associate for homeland security and cybersecurity at The Heritage Foundation, told Breitbart News that the Sony cyberattack is not disruptive enough to merit an act of war or an act of cyber terrorism label.

“This is an example of a cyber crime,” he said. “They stole something just as when credit card information was stolen in the Target hack.”

Sony hackers stole unreleased movies, which they later leaked. They also obtained and released salary information and Social Security numbers for thousands of Sony employees, including celebrities.

North Korea has denied any involvement in the hacking Sony, but has hailed the attack as a “righteous deed," reports BBC.

Moreover, the communist country has warned that releasing the American comedy, The Interview, would amount to an “act of war," the Associated Press reports.

America will face “stern” and “merciless” retaliation if the American government does not block the movie’s release, an unidentified spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in state media, according to AP.

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Cruz: Cuba Deal 'Continues the Brutal Repression and Dictatorship'
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:03 PM

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Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that President Obama's freeing of Cuban spies and push to normalize relations with the island "continues the brutal repression and dictatorship of the Castro Brothers" on Wednesday's "Your World with Neil Cavuto" on the Fox News Channel.

"First, it was Russia, then it was Iran, now it's Cuba. this announcement today will be remembered as a tragic mistake. you know, Cuba was struggling, it was gasping, gasping for air. It has been relying on Venezuela. With oil prices cratering, Venezuela is hurting economically and just like the administration did with Iran, right when the administration was feeling the maximum pain, it throws them an economic lifeline and continues the brutal repression and dictatorship of the Castro Brothers" he stated.

Cruz continued that increased money flowing into the island "enriches and empowers the dictatorship...Cuba is an ally of North Korea. It is an ally of Iran. It is an ally of Venezuela. It is an avowed enemy of this country. It was striking the president's remarks, he talked about the Bay of Pigs invasion, but somehow completely omitted the Cuban Missile Crisis, somehow completely
omitted an incredible threat to
U.S. national security...and it was sad to see both the president and John Kerry essentially blame America first. Blame America for the relation[ship] between the United States and Cuba. Look, the Castros are the ones who have decided to be brutal, reppressive dictators. And we should not be taking blame for the fact that we responded to their active acts of war and hostility. They are a leading state sponsor of terrorism, and just like President Obama did with Russia, just like President Obama did with Iran he does not understand the difference between our friends and our enemies."

He added that the swap for American Alan Gross was "reminiscent" of the Bowe Bergdahl swap, and accused President Obama of favoring "a position of weakness" and trying to push back against the midterm election results by acting unilaterally.

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Obama: 'My Recommendation Would Be that People Go to the Movies'
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:03 PM

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In segment of an interview that aired on ABC’s “World News” on Wednesday, President Barack Obama reacted to the alleged that cyber-attack, which had been confirmed by U.S. officials by ABC News on Sony from North Korea in what appears to be the reaction to the movie “The Interview.”

Obama explained that the cyber-attack was “serious,” but he encouraged people to go to the movies despite the threats on theaters that would have shown the now-canceled Christmas Day release of the film.

“Well, the cyber-attack is very serious,” Obama said. “We’re investigating it. We’re taking it seriously. You know, we'll be vigilant. If we see something that we think is serious and credible, then we'll alert the public, but for now, my recommendation would be that people go to the movies.”

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Americans View of Race Relations is Worst in Two Decades
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:02 PM

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Despite, or perhaps because of Barack Obama being in the White House - many feel he's done more harm than good to race relations in America - an NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll "showed the most pessimistic assessment of racial issues in almost two decades."

A majority of Americans, 57% now say they are bad.

In the wake of protests over the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police, just four in ten Americans told pollsters that they believe race relations in the United States are "good," while 57 percent disagreed. And nearly a quarter - 23 percent - classified the current state of the country's racial issues as "very bad.

The data showed a dramatic slide from just 18 months ago, when a July 2013 poll indicated that a majority - 52 percent - offered an optimistic view of race relations. And throughout President Barack Obama's first term in the White House, more than seven in ten Americans said race relations were good, with a record 77 percent giving a positive assessment shortly after Obama's election as the first black president.

Juan Williams: Cuba Deal 'Pig in a Poke,' 'Nothing There'
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 3:02 PM

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Fox News Analyst and columnist for The Hill, Juan Williams, argued that the deal the Obama administration cut with the government of Cuba was "a pig in a poke" and that "there is nothing there" on Wednesday's "Special Report" on the Fox News Channel.

"The United States got sold a pig in a poke, there is nothing there" he said. And "there is no reason for the United States to reward these despots in any way without paying attention to the human rights, to the freedom of the press, in those countries. And to me, it's worrisome that we would do this...you need to have some sense of a guarantee."

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Putin To Hold News Conference Amid Ruble Crisis, Sanctionsby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
Thursday December 18th, 2014 at 4:35 AM

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold his annual news conference on December 18, one of the set-up events he uses to portray himself as a strong leader with a firm grip on the helm of a grand country.

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» In 1945, Scientists Calculated How Many Nukes Could Destroy The World - io9
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mikenova shared this story from world - Google News. io9 In 1945, Scientists Calculated How Many Nukes Could Destroy The World io9 A newly declassified document obtained by a nuclear historian reveals that the Manhattan Project scientist...

» Spy freed by Cuba ID'd key Cuban agents in U.S. government: U.S. spy chief
17/12/14 22:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Cuban national freed from prison by the Cuban government provided "critical assistance" to United States agencies in exposing Cuban agents who had infiltrated ...

» Polls show Cuban-American views on U.S.-Cuba relations are nuanced - Minnesota Public Radio News
17/12/14 22:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Polls show Cuban-American views on U.S.-Cuba relations are nuanced Minnesota Public Radio News An elderly man makes a move on a chess board at the Maximo Gomez Domino park in Little Ha...

» Russia’s Neighbors in Europe Warily Watch Ruble Crisis
17/12/14 22:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The impact of the currency turmoil on Central and Eastern European nations will depend on how much each country relies on Russian trade and visitors.

» In speech, Raul Castro thanks Obama, Pope Francis
17/12/14 21:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. Cuban leader Raul Castro appeared on state television at precisely noon Wednesday to announce the prisoner swap, thanking Pre...

» Poroshenko: Ukraine is a new, changing country - U-T San Diego
17/12/14 21:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. U-T San Diego Poroshenko: Ukraine is a new, changing country U-T San Diego Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addresses lawmakers at the Polish parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesda...

» Dalai Lama says his role should cease after his death - Reuters
17/12/14 21:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Reuters Dalai Lama says his role should cease after his death Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, has said he thinks his traditional religious ...

» New York state to ban fracking for two years over 'red flags' to public health
17/12/14 21:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Decision comes after two-year study spearheaded by health commissioner into the effects of fracking on the state’s air and water raises ‘serious questions’ The state of New Yo...

» Secret talks in Canada, Vatican City led to Cuba breakthrough
17/12/14 21:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The historic breakthrough in U.S.-Cuban relations began in spring 2013, when President Barack Obama authorized secret talks with Cuba, the same tactic he used to...

» A look at the 'Cuban Five' agents jailed in the US - Dothan Eagle
17/12/14 21:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. The Independent A look at the 'Cuban Five' agents jailed in the US Dothan Eagle HAVANA (AP) — The "Cuban Five" Washington Post HAVANA — The “Cuban Five” refers to intelligence agents w...

» New York will move to prohibit fracking
17/12/14 21:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 8:18 p.m. EST. ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration will move to prevent fracking in the state, citing unresolved health issues and dubious economic benefits of the w...

» The Guardian view on Russia’s economic turmoil: a good time to talk to Vladimir Putin
17/12/14 21:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. With the fall of the rouble, the Russian president is cornered. Creative western diplomacy must prevent him from pulling his country further into nationalism and military adve...

» Rouble crisis opens up Putin to attack
17/12/14 21:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Financial upheaval alters terms of Russian political debate

» Ukraine President: Peace Talks Could Resume Dec. 21
17/12/14 21:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko says preparations are under way to reopen long-stalled his government could resume peace talks with Russian-backed separatists in the Belarusian capit...

» U.S., Citing Syria Embargo Violations, Moves Against Companies
17/12/14 21:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The Obama administration, seeking to cut off oil to the government of President Bashar al-Assad, imposed penalties on five people and six companies.

» How Al Capone could have escaped Alcatraz - Hamilton Spectator
17/12/14 21:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. How Al Capone could have escaped Alcatraz Hamilton Spectator Al (Scarface) Capone could have learned a thing or two from a team of Dutch scientists from the Delft University of T...

» Scientists: Alcatraz prisoners could have survived - KFOX El Paso
17/12/14 21:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Scientists: Alcatraz prisoners could have survived KFOX El Paso SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Scientists say the three prisoners who escaped from Alcatraz in one of the most famous and e...

» Raul Castro to Obama: Thanks, Barack. Now end the sanctions
17/12/14 21:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from GlobalPost - Home. LIMA — For such a historic Castro speech, it was curiously short. Cuban President Raul Castro spoke for just nine minutes, starting at noon Eastern time, to respond to the mo...

» Obama mistaken for waiter, valet driver - GlobalPost
17/12/14 21:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Telegraph.co.uk Obama mistaken for waiter, valet driver GlobalPost Barack and Michelle Obama have revealed their experiences of racism in a wide-ranging interview with celebrity ...

» Alcatraz escapees could have lived, study says - CNN
17/12/14 21:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CNN Alcatraz escapees could have lived, study says CNN (CNN) -- On June 11, 1962, three Alcatraz inmates -- John Anglin, Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris -- attempted to leave th...

» Mystery man among 5 freed in historic U.S.-Cuba deal
17/12/14 21:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. Five men are tasting freedom for the first time in years -- including one President Barack Obama described as "one of the most important intelligence agents that the United States has ever...

» Mass grave of 230 uncovered in Syria after ISIS slaughtered tribe
17/12/14 21:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Relatives of the dead, who were from the Shaitaat tribe, discovered the burial site in the country's eastern Deir el-Zour province, a monitoring group said today. Pictured is a previous...

» Russian father on the run after videos in which he fed pet snake live animals
17/12/14 21:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Father-of-two Andrei Generalov, 32, from St. Petersburg, Russia, who fed parrots, guinea pigs, cats and puppies to his pet snake and filmed the gruesome footage is being hunted by police.

» People Affected by Hunger in West African Ebola Nations Could Double
17/12/14 21:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The number of people threatened by hunger in three West African nations battling the worst Ebola outbreak in history could double to one million by March if food supplies don't improve...

» China’s controversial ray gun inflicts unbearable pain
17/12/14 21:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. Poly WB-1 China has presented Poly WB-1, a non-lethal ray gun that can be used for crowd dispersal, by making its targets feel like their skin is on fi...

» Obama on Cuba’s Release of Alan Gross | The New York Times
17/12/14 21:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by The New York Times. Obama on Cuba’s Release of Alan Gross | The New York Times President Obama discussed the release of the contractor, Alan P. Gross, who had been held in Cuba for five years, a...

» Obama on Change to U.S.-Cuba Relations | The New York Times
17/12/14 21:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by The New York Times. Obama on Change to U.S.-Cuba Relations | The New York Times The president outlined the steps the United States would take to “end an outdated approach” and begin to normalize...

» U.S.-led coalition conducts 67 air strikes against Islamic State: task force
17/12/14 21:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies have conducted 61 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq in the past the three days, the Combined Joint Task Force ...

» After 53 years, time is right for US and Cuba
17/12/14 21:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 8:18 p.m. EST. MEXICO CITY (AP) -- After 53 years of hostility between the United States and Cuba, the timing to make amends was perfect for both governments....

» Pakistan’s prime minister promises day of reckoning with militants
17/12/14 21:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. As massacre victims are buried, Nawaz Sharif says there will be no more differentiation between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban Pakistan buried its slaughtered children on Wednesday,...

» Dow jumps after Fed pledges patience in rate hikes
17/12/14 21:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 8:18 p.m. EST. NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrial average surged as much as 300 points after the Federal Reserve signaled it was edging closer to raising interest rates because o...

» Taliban Attack Reflects a Barbaric Competition
17/12/14 21:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. ANALYSIS: The Pakistani Taliban’s attack on a school—one of their bloodiest atrocities—was likely the result of a rational cost-benefit analysis. Its bottom line: in this business, bar...

» Italy police break up international money laundering ring in Rome
17/12/14 21:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. ROME (Reuters) - Italian finance police on Wednesday arrested 17 people accused of running an international money laundering ring through a British-based money transfer services compan...

» Russian Sailors Finish Training at French Port, but Will Leave Without Warship
17/12/14 21:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Amid tensions over Ukraine, France continues to delay the delivery of a Mistral-class warship, one of two ordered by Russia and built in the French port city of Saint-Nazaire.

» Free exchange - The Economist
17/12/14 21:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world - Google News. The Economist Free exchange The Economist WHAT is the point of economics? It often seems that the objective is to make the world richer. When global GDP is growing quickly, dismal scie...

» A look at 'Cuban 5' agents who were jailed in US
17/12/14 21:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 8:18 p.m. EST. HAVANA (AP) -- The "Cuban Five" refers to intelligence agents whose so-called "Wasp Network" operated in Florida in the 1990s. They were arrested in 1998 and later convic...

» U.S., Cuba to restore ties after 50 years of hostility
17/12/14 21:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. HAVANA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will restore diplomatic relations it severed with Cuba more than 50 years ago, a major policy shift ending decades of hostile ties with ...

» Cuba Action Is Obama’s Latest Step Away From 6 Years of Caution
17/12/14 21:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. President Obama seems to be putting Republican critics on notice that he will use his last two years in office to pursue his earlier campaign promises.

» Barack Obama announces thaw in US-Cuba relations - video
17/12/14 21:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. The US president announces drastic changes to the relationship between the US and Cuba, ending 50 years of hostility. Obama says the US will stop the 'rigid' policy of is...

» Bacardi, Exiled From Cuba in 1960, Is Hopeful for Change
17/12/14 21:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. Bacardi, the spirits maker that was founded in Cuba and later exiled from the country in 1960, says it hopes for better lives for Cubans following the Obama Administration’s decision to normalize dip...

» Cuba welcomes Castro's announce of renewed US ties
17/12/14 21:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 8:18 p.m. EST. HAVANA (AP) -- Bells tolled in celebration and teachers halted lessons midday as President Raul Castro told his country Wednesday that Cuba was restoring relations with t...

» Cruise Line Shares Sail Higher as U.S., Cuba Relations Improve
17/12/14 21:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. Shares of cruise-line operators sailed to big gains on Wednesday as investors placed a bet that improving relations between the U.S. and Cuba could lead to new opportunities for tourism. Shares of Ca...

» Whites the new minority in America by 2044
17/12/14 21:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. New population projections by the US Census Bureau show that whites will become a minority by 2044. The US will be home to a youthful, growing minority...

» USAID Chief Submits Resignation
17/12/14 21:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Rajiv Shah, head of the United States' global development agency, announced Wednesday that he would resign in February. In a statement, Shah, who was confirmed in 2009 as the 16th adminis...

» Breakthrough on Cuba Highlights Pope’s Role as Diplomatic Broker
17/12/14 21:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The agreement between the United States and Cuba, coming on Francis’s 78th birthday, was a “beautiful present for the Holy Father,” a Vatican official said. says.

» Sony needs 'Team America: World Police' - Washington Times
17/12/14 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world - Google News. Washington Times Sony needs 'Team America: World Police' Washington Times What's curious about all of this is, when Trey Parker and Matt Stone, (the creators of “South Park”) released ...

» Sun journalists in corruption trial ‘acted in public interest’
17/12/14 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Stories involving alleged payments to officials included exposé about Halloween fancy-dress party for Broadmoor inmates The six Sun journalists on trial for allegedly “bunging...

» Ukraine says possible peace talks in Minsk on Sunday
17/12/14 21:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by AFP news agency. Ukraine says possible peace talks in Minsk on Sunday Trilateral peace talks towards ending the Ukraine crisis could take place on Sunday in Minsk, according to the conflict-ridd...

» Parthenon Marbles statue on display in Russia
17/12/14 21:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by AFP news agency. Parthenon Marbles statue on display in Russia A headless scultpure of a Greek river god from the Parthenon Marbles - known in Britain as the Elgin Marbles - is on display at a R...

» Top theater chains cancel 'The Interview' showings
17/12/14 21:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 7:04 p.m. EST. NEW YORK (AP) -- The top theater chains in North America have dropped "The Interview" after hackers threatened terrorist attacks at theaters showing the comedy, effective...

» TV meteorologist shot outside Texas studio - New York Daily News
17/12/14 21:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Daily News TV meteorologist shot outside Texas studio New York Daily News The manhunt is on for a gunman who shot a Texas meteorologist shot three times outside his tele...

» Fidel Loses the Race to the Grave
17/12/14 21:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. The world now has the answer to a question as old as the New World Order: Which would die first? Fidel Castro? Or the chokehold his angry critics maintained on U.S. foreign policy since El Comandante...

» U.S. global aid chief announces resignation
17/12/14 21:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The head of the U.S. global development agency announced on Wednesday that he will step down from his post in February, saying he had "mixed e...

» Alan Gross thanks Obama for release from Cuba - video
17/12/14 21:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. Alan Gross speaks to press after being released from a Cuban prison where he was held for five years. Gross, 65, says knowing he was being thought of made his stay in jai...

» Colombian Rebels Announce Unilateral Cease-Fire
17/12/14 21:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. (HAVANA) — Colombian rebels at peace talks with government representatives in Cuba have announced an indefinite, unilateral cease-fire as long as military units don’t attack them. The Rev...

» American Lawmakers, Others Split on US-Cuba Moves
17/12/14 21:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. President Barack Obama’s move to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba drew sharp and sharply differing reactions across America’s political spectrum, among Cuban exiles in Florida and ...

» WorldViews: 4 reasons an opening to Cuba is long overdue
17/12/14 21:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. "Change is hard, but today America chooses to cut loose the shackles of the past," said President Obama on Wednesday, announc...

» Raul Castro: 'President Obama deserves respect and recognition' - video
17/12/14 21:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. Cuban president Raul Castro urges the US to end the economic embargo, but praises President Obama for the agreement to re-establish diplomatic relations. Castro spoke in ...

» Afghan Spy Chief Blames NATO Pullout, Technology Vacuum For Security Woes
17/12/14 21:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Afghanistan's acting spy chief has blamed the dwindling number of NATO troops and a technology vacuum for the surge in militant attacks across the country.

» Mocking Kim Jong Un, a Serious Matter
17/12/14 20:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A new Hollywood comedy about a U.S. plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has drawn widespread attention after the film's release was linked to a massive cyber attack on its...

» Russian Authorities Order Tycoon Freed From House Arrest
17/12/14 20:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russian authorities have released billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov from house arrest less than two months after a controversial ruling to nationalize his stake in an oil...

» Opponent calls for Putin's exit as Russia slides into crisis
17/12/14 19:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - A prominent opponent has warned Vladimir Putin his days in power are numbered, as Russia awaits the president's response to the dramatic decline of the rouble.

» WorldViews: 6 graphs that explain Cuba
17/12/14 19:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. President Obama has announced an effort to normalize relations with Cuba more than half a century after the historic rift bet...

» Ruble Volatile Despite Intervention
17/12/14 19:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The ruble strengthened in afternoon trading after Russia’s central bank announced measures to shore up the country’s banks following another volatile day for the currency.

» Sony Cancels Kim Jong-Un Movie After Threats
17/12/14 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Sony Pictures Sony has cancelled the release of the controversial film The Interview, which depicts depicting an assassination of North Ko...

» Letter From China: Reporters in China Say Media Freeze Is Intensifying
17/12/14 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Progress on visa renewals for journalists obscures what many correspondents say is a mounting hostility toward Western media outlets operating in China.

» Hamas removed from EU terrorist list on technicality - Ynetnews
17/12/14 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Hamas removed from EU terrorist list on technicality Ynetnews European Union General Court annuls decision to keep Hamas on list of terrorist organizations, but temporarily maint...

» Obama Starts Dismantling Cuba Embargo
17/12/14 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. President Obama has announced a major shift in U.S. policy toward Cuba and begun dismantling the decades-old embargo against the communist island nation. VOA White House correspondent Lui...

» Detente between US and Cuba triggers mixed reactions
17/12/14 19:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by AFP news agency. Detente between US and Cuba triggers mixed reactions Long-time Cuban exiles in Miami, Florida, reacted with disbelief to the news that the US and Cuba would normalize their rela...

» UPDATE 1-After first big step, US faces long path to forge ties to Cuba - Reuters
17/12/14 19:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. MiamiHerald.com UPDATE 1-After first big step, US faces long path to forge ties to Cuba Reuters (Adds quotes from Obama, Rubio; details). By Alistair Bell. WASHINGTON Dec 17 (Reuters) ...

» Obama Starts Dismantling Cuba Embargo - YouTube
17/12/14 19:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Dec 17, 2014 President Obama has announced a major shift in U.S. policy toward Cuba and begun dismantling the decades-old embargo against the communist island nation. VOA White House corresponden...

» World Briefing: Foul Play Ruled Out in German Politician’s Death
17/12/14 19:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Andreas Schockenhoff, a well-known critic of Russia, died last weekend of heart failure or heat exposure, an autopsy showed.

» World Briefing: German Soldiers May Help Train Forces in Iraq
17/12/14 19:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Germany’s cabinet approved a plan for 100 soldiers to help train Kurdish pesh merga forces.

» US-Cuba rapprochement exposes Venezuela's Maduro - Reuters
17/12/14 19:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Latin American Herald Tribune Yahoo! Maktoob News US-Cuba rapprochement exposes Venezuela's Maduro Reuters CARACAS Dec 17 (Reuters) - Even as Cuba and the United States try to bury 50 ...

» North Koreans Toil for Little Pay Overseas
17/12/14 19:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. In the heat of Qatar, nearly 3,000 North Koreans labor on construction sites, under harsh conditions. The laborers and local construction managers tell VOA that they work very long hours ...

» Dalai Lama says his role should cease after his death but Tibetans, not China ... - ABC Online
17/12/14 19:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. ABC Online Dalai Lama says his role should cease after his death but Tibetans, not China ... ABC Online The Dalai Lama says he thinks his traditional religious role should cease with h...

» Sen. Jeff Sessions drops bid for budget chairmanship, will lead welfare reform ... - AL.com
17/12/14 19:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Sen. Jeff Sessions drops bid for budget chairmanship, will lead welfare reform ... AL.com Sen. Jeff Sessions is stepping aside in his bid to become the next chairman of the Senat...

» Economic Fears May Push Russia Into Ukraine Deal - New York Times
17/12/14 19:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. The Nation Economic Fears May Push Russia Into Ukraine Deal New York Times BERLIN — The turmoil in the Russian economy appears to be encouraging Moscow to seek compromise in the crisis...

» U.S. Links North Korea to Sony Hacking
17/12/14 19:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. American intelligence officials have concluded that the government of Kim Jong-un was “centrally involved” in the attacks on the film company’s computers.

» Cold War-Style Spy Swap Key To US-Cuba Deal
17/12/14 19:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. A Cuban who provided intelligence on agents in the US government is exchanged for three jailed members of Cuba's Wasp Network.

» Cuba has always been a fantasy. Can it ever be something close to normal?
17/12/14 17:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. US foreign policy may no longer be frozen in time, but on both shores of this failed experiment, the healing has just begun Plus: Complete coverage of the Cuba deal Many years...

» Putin Orders Feared “Samson Defense” To Collapse US-EU Economies
17/12/14 17:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. A chilling report published today by the Ministry of Economic Development ( MED ) is warning of potentially “catastrophic unknown consequences” relatin...

» The US and Cuba are now on equal terms for the first time in history
17/12/14 17:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. For most of the half-century since the US broke off diplomatic relations, Washington fought a war of economic attrition that affected millions The decision to restore normal d...

» A New Beginning With Cuba
17/12/14 17:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Following months of secret negotiations with the Cuban government, President Obama on Wednesday announced sweeping changes to normalize relations with Havana, a bold move that ends one of the most misguided c...

» Russia’s Economic Turmoil Could Push Putin to Close Deal on Ukraine
17/12/14 16:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . BERLIN — The turmoil in the Russian economy appears to be encouraging Moscow to seek compromise in the crisis over Ukraine , although President Vladimir V. Putin has proved so erratic in past months tha...

» Obama announces 'new chapter' in US-Cuba ties - YouTube
17/12/14 16:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Dec 17, 2014 US President Barack Obama said Wednesday a "new chapter" had been opened in Washington's ties with Cuba, saying it was time to end an "outdated approach" that had failed to move rela...

» Tortured by Psychologists and Doctors
17/12/14 16:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . One of the most disturbing revelations in the Senate report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation program was the deep complicity of psychologists and doctors in torturing suspected terrori...

» Ruble Remains Volatile as Russia Pledges to Sell Foreign Currency
17/12/14 16:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DealBook. LONDON — Trading in the Russian ruble was volatile early Wednesday morning, rallying briefly on news that the Finance Ministry was ready to sell some of its foreign currency reserves, and t...

» Moscow’s Anti-American ‘Cultural Komintern’ Will Trump US Soft Power, Russian Analyst Says
16/12/14 13:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Stripped of its scholarly verbiage, the Russian commentator says, Nye’s ideas about Amer...

» Kerry, Lavrov Meet Again on Ukraine Conflict
16/12/14 13:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met again Sunday to discuss Ukraine, just days after U.S. lawmakers voted in support of providing military ai...

» Patriarch calls for warmer US-Russian relations : News Headlines
16/12/14 13:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . 1 0 Google + 0 Delicious 0 Catholic World News - December 04, 2014 The head of the Russian Orthodox Church met with the US ambassador to Russia on November 28 and called for warmer US-Russian re...

» Экстренное совещание по экономике у Медведева: эксперт рассказал о мерах по спасению рубля - Экономика
16/12/14 13:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Сможет ли изменить ситуацию валют&...

» Лавров: НАТО Разорвало отношения с РФ, но по-тихому хотело продолжать сотрудничать - Политика
16/12/14 13:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Сегодня в 19:16, просмотров: 7164 Россия ник&#...

» Children massacred in Pakistan school attack - YouTube
16/12/14 13:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Dec 16, 2014 At least 141 people, including 132 children, have been killed in a horrific attack by Pakistani Taliban fighters (TTP) on a military-run school in Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest. S...

» Taliban Gunmen Storm Pakistani School, 126 Dead - YouTube
16/12/14 13:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Dec 16, 2014 Militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban, TTP, stormed a military-run school in Peshawar early Tuesday, killing 126 people. A majority of the dead were young students in what officials cal...

» Can Putin Turn the ISIS Mess to Russia’s Advantage?
16/12/14 12:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The World. Photo by Andrey Smirnov/AFP/Getty Images Sputnik News, the slick new-media rebranding of the venerable Russian news wire RIA-Novosti, reports that Russia has called on the U.N. Security Council ...

» Why Russia is hung up on homosexuality
16/12/14 12:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - Europe. By Matthew Chance, CNN updated 10:00 AM EST, Tue December 16, 2014 STORY HIGHLIGHTS CNN's Matthew Chance: It's not only Russia where sexual minorities suffer discrimination Some U.S. stat...

» Vladimir Putin vs. the Currency Markets: What to Know About the Ruble’s Collapse
16/12/14 12:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > The Upshot. Vladimir Putin ’s biggest enemy right now may well be the currency markets. Even as it spars with Ukraine, Russia’s government is in the midst of a full-scale war to preser...

» The Talk: After Ferguson, a Shaded Conversation About Race
16/12/14 12:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . LIKE so many African-American parents, I had rehearsed “the talk,” that nausea-inducing discussion I needed to have with my son about how to conduct himself in the presence of the police. I was pr...

» Dershowitz Seeks to Bring Close to Polanski Case
16/12/14 12:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . LOS ANGELES — Alan M. Dershowitz , a lawyer whose celebrity clients have included the heiress Patty Hearst and the hacker Julian Assange , is seeking to lead what could be the final effort to end the le...

» Army Deserter Is Jailed for Chasing the Conflicts That Steadied His Mind
16/12/14 12:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . FORT DRUM, N.Y. — After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point near the top of his class in 2008, Second Lt. Lawrence J. Franks Jr. went on to a stellar career with three deplo...

» Board-Certification Has Gone Too Far
16/12/14 12:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . IT’S hard to believe that another 10 years have passed, but the proof is the 11-volume stack of medical review books at my bedside. It’s time for the decennial rite of cramming a thousand pages of...

» Egypt’s Latest Outrage - NYTimes.com
16/12/14 12:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Two events over the weekend illustrated the contradictory relationship between the United States and Egypt. On Friday, Egypt refused to grant entry to an American scholar and former diplomat, Michele Dunne, w...

» Ruble Continues Its Decline in Russia, Despite Interest Rate Increase
16/12/14 11:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . MOSCOW — The ruble’s value continued to slide on Tuesday despite the Russian central bank’s extraordinary effort to defend it, inducing further panic in the nation’s financial industry...

» Pakistani Taliban Attack on Peshawar School Leaves 145 Dead
16/12/14 11:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Credit Bilawal Arbab/European Pressphoto Agency PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani Taliban gunmen stormed into a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing scores of teachers and schoo...

» Rampage Killings Fast Facts - CNN.com
16/12/14 11:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - U.S.. Police officers walk on a rooftop at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, September 16, after a shooting rampage in the nation's capital. At least 12 people and suspect Aaron Alexis were kil...

» Pennsylvania town tense as police hunt alleged killer
16/12/14 11:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - U.S.. Your video will begin momentarily. STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Upper Perkiomen School District calls off classes for Tuesday Killings break the calm in three small towns in Pennsylvania The distri...

» Death of Merkel Ally Who Criticized Russia Being Probed
16/12/14 11:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Businessweek.com -- Top News. German authorities are carrying out an autopsy on a lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party who criticized Russia, saying they want to rule out foul play. Andreas S...

» Russia failing to prevent homophobic violence, says Human Rights Watch
15/12/14 22:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Anti-gay harassment has risen since controversial law banning ‘homosexual propaganda’ was passed last year, report says Gay people in Russia are being subjected to increasing amounts...

» Violence Against LGBTs Getting Worse in Russia, Study Says
15/12/14 22:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Russia's controversial law against gay propaganda has become a "license to harm" for Russian homophobes, who have expanded to target closeted gays, a new study says.

» Window on Eurasia: Are Kadyrov’s Days as Head of Chechnya Numbered?
15/12/14 22:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, December 15 – Ramzan Kadyrov’s ouster as head of Chechnya has been rumored so...

» $60 Oil Would See Russia's Economy Shrink 4.5 Percent Next Year – Central Bank
15/12/14 22:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Russia's Central Bank said Monday that it was likely the economy would contract in the first quarter of next year and perhaps by around 4.5 percent in 2015 as a whole if oil p...

» Ex-White House Press Secretary Jay Carney Was Right About The Russian ... - Business Insider
15/12/14 22:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Ex-White House Press Secretary Jay Carney Was Right About The Russian ... Business Insider Carney, then the White House press secretary, said in March that the only t...

» Will Russia Follow the USSR into the Dustbin of History – and for the Same Reasons?
15/12/14 22:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, December 13 – Four Russian analysts suggest that the six causes they identify as being behind the collapse of the USSR are again to varying degrees present in Russ...

» Russia heading for crash as ruble plummets - CNNMoney
15/12/14 22:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Christian Science Monitor BBC News Russia heading for crash as ruble plummets CNNMoney Cash is flooding out of the country and the risk that some Russian companies may default is incr...

» Сколько Путин отвел Медведеву
15/12/14 22:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by Радио Свобода. Сколько Путин отвел Медведеву Дмитрий Медведев дает интервью и пишет статьи, в то время, как его отставки от Путина требуют все настойчиве... From: Радио Свобода Views: 301 22 0 0...

» Ruble Collapse Stokes Russian Mortgage Boom
15/12/14 22:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. One real estate developer and mortgage provider is eager to highlight the collapse of the Russian currency.

» Ходаковский: ДНР нужно выходить на границы Донецкой области - ИА REGNUM
15/12/14 22:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РИА Новости Комсомольская Правда в Украине Ходаковский: ДНР нужно выходить на границы Донецкой области ИА REGNUM «Нужно выходить на границы Донецкой области. Если Украина не соглас...

» Украина может не получить помощь ЕС в полном размере – Ковтун - СЕГОДНЯ
15/12/14 22:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. СЕГОДНЯ Украина может не получить помощь ЕС в полном размере – Ковтун СЕГОДНЯ Украина может не получить полную сумму второго транша помощи ЕС в размере 105 млн евро в 2015 году, по...

» Конгресс давит на Кремль
15/12/14 22:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by Радио Свобода. Конгресс давит на Кремль Помо...

» White House has not yet decided on Russia sanctions bill - Reuters
15/12/14 22:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters White House has not yet decided on Russia sanctions bill Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that President Barack Obama had not yet decided how to r...

» Russia raises key rate to 17%, effective Tuesday - CNBC
15/12/14 22:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CNBC TIME Russia raises key rate to 17%, effective Tuesday CNBC In September, the United States and the European Union imposed a new round of sanctions for Moscow's actions in Ukraine...

» Obama: Not Enough Thanks for US Troops Who Served in Afghanistan
15/12/14 22:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. With the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan coming to a close, President Barack Obama saluted returning U.S. troops Monday, saying the country cannot thank them enough. The president was ...

» Лукашенко заявил, что США сняли с Белоруссии все санкции - ИА REGNUM
15/12/14 22:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Lenta.ru Лукашенко заявил, что США сняли с Белоруссии все санкции ИА REGNUM Белоруссии следует диверсифицировать рынки, не надеясь на Россию. Об этом 15 декабря в Минске заявил Але...

» Denmark challenges Russia and Canada over North Pole - BBC News
15/12/14 22:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. BBC News Denmark challenges Russia and Canada over North Pole BBC News Canada and Russia have already asserted their own sovereignty over the energy-rich Arctic territory. Arctic nati...

» RUSSIAN RATE-HIKE STUNNER - Business Insider
15/12/14 22:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider RUSSIAN RATE-HIKE STUNNER Business Insider This surprise announcement from Russia comes after the ruble got absolutely crushed on Monday, losing more than 10% of its ...

» What is Vladimir Putin doing in the skies of the Baltics?
15/12/14 22:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. A near-miss between a Scandinavian airliner and a Russian spy plane shows the Kremlin's war gaming

» The big risk of the Russian central bank’s drastic interest rate rise
15/12/14 22:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. As the pressure grows on the rouble and Putin’s regime, the geopolitical temperature goes up rises Burn some speculators and show you’re serious. That’s the thinking behind the Russi...

» World Briefing: Denmark: A Claim to the North Pole
15/12/14 22:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Scientific data shows that Greenland’s continental shelf is connected to a ridge beneath the Arctic Ocean, giving Denmark a claim to the North Pole and any energy resources beneath it, Den...

» World Briefing | Europe: Russia: NATO Voices Aviation Protest
15/12/14 22:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. NATO on Monday accused Russia of posing a danger to civil aviation in the Baltic region after Sweden protested that a Russian Air Force jet had flown too close to an airliner and had turne...

» Ukraine PM: $10B Needed to Avoid Bankruptcy
15/12/14 22:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says his country urgently needs $10 billion to avoid bankruptcy. After meeting with European Union ministers in Brussels Monday, reporters asked...

» Вице-премьер США пообещал обеспечить помощь Украине от МВФ - Полит.ру
15/12/14 22:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Корреспондент.net Вице-премьер США пообещал обеспечить помощь Украине от МВФ Полит.ру Вице-президент США Джо Байден пообещал украинскому лидеру Петру Порошенко сделать все необходи...

» Russian Military Jet Nearly Collides With Passenger Plane
15/12/14 22:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. There's been another close call between a Russian military aircraft and a commercial jetliner.

» US Senate passes $1.1tn spending bill
15/12/14 22:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Vote ends threat of government shutdown and ensures funding for federal agencies until September 2015 The US Senate passed a $1.1tn spending bill on Saturday, ending the threa...

» US protesters march against police slayings of black men
15/12/14 22:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 8 p.m. EST. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Demonstrators nationwide protesting the fatal shootings of unarmed black men killed by police chanted "I can't breathe!" "Hands up, don't shoot!" and wave...

» 45 arrested after police protests in SF Bay Area - MiamiHerald.com
15/12/14 22:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. 45 arrested after police protests in SF Bay Area MiamiHerald.com Police arrested 45 people Saturday in the hours after thousands of protesters took to the streets of San Francisc...

» Russian Human Rights Group Under Pressure In Chechnya
15/12/14 22:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Grozny apartment that served as the office of the local monitoring group branch of the Committee to Prevent Torture (KPP) was destroyed by a fire late on December 13.

» Azerbaijani Opposition Rallies For Release Of Political Prisoners
15/12/14 22:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Azerbaijani opposition activists and their supporters urged the government to release political prisoners and end repression at a rally in Baku.

» Lupica: America continues to protect gun nuts after Newtown - New York Daily News
15/12/14 21:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Kansas City Star ABC News Lupica: America continues to protect gun nuts after Newtown New York Daily News Peg Brokaw, 95, had missed the early Saturday morning Mass at St. Rose o...

» Bond producers say screenplay stolen in Sony hack
15/12/14 21:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 8 p.m. EST. LONDON (AP) -- The producers of James Bond films say an early version of the screenplay for the new movie "SPECTRE" is among the material stolen in the massive cyberattack o...

» Intelligence committee requests CIA material on UK role in interrogation - Times of India
15/12/14 21:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Times of India Intelligence committee requests CIA material on UK role in interrogation Times of India LONDON: Britain's top security committee will ask CIA to hand over all material d...

» Haiti - Politic : Violent protest in the capital, one dead - Haitilibre.com
15/12/14 21:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Haitilibre.com Haiti - Politic : Violent protest in the capital, one dead Haitilibre.com Saturday at the call of the opposition a new anti-government demonstration was held in th...

» EU's Russia debate a challenge for top diplomat Mogherini
15/12/14 21:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Italy's Federica Mogherini pledged as European Union foreign policy chief that the EU would play a stronger role in tackling world crises. Her resolve is about to ...

» Identity theft victims face months of hassle
15/12/14 21:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 8 p.m. EST. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- As soon as Mark Kim found out his personal information was compromised in a data breach at Target last year, the 36-year-old tech worker signed up for ...

» Ukraine Aid Bill Heads To Obama
15/12/14 21:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A bill authorizing lethal aid for Ukraine and new sanctions against Russia unanimously passed the U.S. Senate late on December 13, sending it to U.S. President Barack Oba...

» FSB Names Former Russian Spy In Estonia
15/12/14 21:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has revealed the name of one of its agents who spied for the FSB for 20 years while also being employed at Estonia's internal secu...

» Cheney Defends C.I.A. Tactics in Counterattack on Senate Report on Torture
15/12/14 21:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Former Vice President Dick Cheney mounted a spirited rebuttal to the Senate committee’s torture report, saying there was no comparison between the C.I.A.’s tactics and terrorists’ actions.

» Former CIA official: Employees see report as 'silly, partisan' - The Hill
15/12/14 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Sacramento Bee Former CIA official: Employees see report as 'silly, partisan' The Hill CIA employees are on the defense after the release of a Senate report that concluded the agency's...

» Full Diplomatic Plate for Kerry in Rome
15/12/14 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Secretary of State John F. Kerry traveled to Rome on Sunday to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders, the new European foreign policy chief and the foreign ministers of Russia, France, Brita...

» Moscow opposes Western requests to fire Russian at Darfur mission: envoys
15/12/14 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia has opposed requests by the United States, Britain and France for the firing of a key Russian official from a troubled peacekeeping mission in Sudan's...

» On Torture Report, Cheney Attacks While Bush Goes Quiet - Bloomberg
15/12/14 21:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. The Guardian On Torture Report, Cheney Attacks While Bush Goes Quiet Bloomberg The former president and vice president have criticized the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's rep...

» Cheney on CIA Torture: Bush Was Fully Informed - Businessweek
15/12/14 21:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Slate Magazine Cheney on CIA Torture: Bush Was Fully Informed Businessweek Former Vice President Dick Cheney said President George W. Bush was fully briefed on interrogation tact...

» Cheney has no regrets: 'I would do it again in a minute' - CNN
15/12/14 21:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. NBCNews.com Cheney has no regrets: 'I would do it again in a minute' CNN Washington (CNN) -- A defiant former Vice President Dick Cheney doubled-down on his defense of the extrem...

» Paris, Berlin Call On Kyiv To Press Ahead With Reforms
15/12/14 21:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have called on Ukraine to press ahead with economic reforms.

» Amid terrorism fears in Europe, are security forces going too far?
15/12/14 21:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. BIRMINGHAM, England — As a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Moazzam Begg was able to escape only Begg’s only escape was in his dre...

» Journalists arrested in Turkey
15/12/14 21:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. Turkish police on Sunday arrested senior journalists, media executives and even the scriptwriter for a popular television series on charges of "forming, leading and being a member of an ar...

» Russia 'could accidentally down a plane over Britain': Defence Secretary warns Putin he is playing 'dangerous' game allowing bombers to fly over UK waters
15/12/14 21:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Michael Fallon said Vladimir Putin’s aggression could even spark a war with Nato forces. He said Britain should ‘prepare for the worst’ as the Russian President flexes his muscles.

» Where the U.S. Army Is Winless
15/12/14 21:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. Thirteen years ago, two months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the U.S. finally had something to celebrate. “We believe the Taliban appears to have abandoned Kabul,” General Richard ...

» Sony’s International Incident: Making Kim’s Head Explode
15/12/14 21:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Sony’s executives now say they knew that basing a film on the assassination of Kim Jong-un of North Korea had inherent risks.

» C.I.A. Chief and President Walk Fine Line
15/12/14 21:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. John O. Brennan’s close relationship with President Obama helped shape his assertive response to a scathing Senate report on agency torture.

» Brennan Draws on Bond With Obama in Backing CIA - New York Times
15/12/14 21:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Times Brennan Draws on Bond With Obama in Backing CIA New York Times WASHINGTON — Just hours before he publicly responded last week to the Senate Intelligence Committee ...

» Nazarbaev Issues Veiled Warning To Russia At SCO Meeting
15/12/14 21:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The prime ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states are meeting in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana.

» Russian arms sales soared in 2013, bucking global slowdown: think tank
15/12/14 21:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Russian arms makers' sales soared 20 percent in 2013, bucking a slowdown in other countries' industries, largely thanks to a Kremlin push to modernize its militar...

» Moscow shifts to tougher economic relationship with Ukraine: PM
15/12/14 21:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moving closer to the European Union offers no panacea for Ukraine's financial problems and will mean big losses in economic ties with Moscow, Russian Prime Minister ...

» Poet Yevtushenko Hospitalized in Russia After Fall
15/12/14 21:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who achieved a rock-star level of fame during the Soviet era, was hospitalized on December 14 after a fall during a visit to the souther...

» Obama's Nuclear Hypocrisy: He Promised A World Without Nukes, What ... - Mother Jones
15/12/14 21:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world - Google News. Mother Jones Obama's Nuclear Hypocrisy: He Promised A World Without Nukes, What ... Mother Jones Mark these days. A long-dreaded transformation from hope to doom is taking place as the...

» Gay conversion group's billboard star not a twin … but is gay
15/12/14 21:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. The poster claimed that of identical twins, one was gay and one straight. In fact the ‘twins’ were a single model and he is openly gay When the gay-to-straight conversion grou...

» Russian Arms Sales Soared in 2013, Bucking Global Slowdown
15/12/14 21:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Russian arms makers' sales soared 20 percent in 2013, bucking a slowdown in other countries' industries, largely thanks to a Kremlin push to modernize its military, the SIPRI think tank s...

» Cheney defends controversial CIA interrogations and denies it was torture - La prensa
15/12/14 21:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. La prensa Cheney defends controversial CIA interrogations and denies it was torture La prensa Cheney said his definition of torture was "an American citizen on a cell phone making...

» HRW: Russia Fails to Protect LGBT Community
15/12/14 20:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Human Rights Watch says Russian authorities have failed "in their obligation to prevent and prosecute homophobic violence." The human rights group said Monday that growing numbers of lesb...

» Ukraine conflict creates 'increasingly dire' conditions for 5M people, UN warns - CBC.ca
15/12/14 20:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. CBC.ca Ukraine conflict creates 'increasingly dire' conditions for 5M people, UN warns CBC.ca The UN human rights office says at least 4,707 people have been killed and 10,322 wounded ...

» Guantanamo Hearing to Focus on FBI Actions
15/12/14 20:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. FBI efforts to infiltrate defense teams will top the agenda when a U.S. military court hearing for suspects in the September 11, 2001, attacks starts on Monday, the first such proceeding ...

» $1.3bn committed to fight Islamic State terror in Iraq - The Australian
15/12/14 20:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. NEWS.com.au $1.3bn committed to fight Islamic State terror in Iraq The Australian SPENDING on national security to counter homegrown terrorism and fight Islamic State extremists in Ira...

» Prisoners of war put to work in east Ukraine
15/12/14 20:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by AFP news agency. Prisoners of war put to work in east Ukraine On the snowy roof of a music school in eastern Ukraine, workers are busy fixing damage from artillery shelling. When their shift end...

» ISIS hostage Peter Kassig was killed by gunshot before being beheaded, analysis shows
15/12/14 20:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Medical experts examining an ISIS propaganda video in which Mr Kassig's severed head is seen at the feet of ISIS' British executioner in chief, have concluded that he is likely to have ...

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