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• IMF Chief in Fraud Investigation Scandal

  By raincoaster on August 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Oh joy, it’s Schadenfreude Day! IMF head Christine Lagarde is being investigated in connection with possible fraud for her role, as Finance Minister, in a convoluted series of events stemming from a €400 lawsuit which was decided in favour of… Read More ›

• #HandsUpWalkOut: #Anonymous and #OpFerguson call for General Strike in Missouri

  By raincoaster on August 28, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s not every day there’s a Statewide General Strike called by a faceless, headless group of Anonymous hacktivists rather than a political party or labour union. But it is Friday. This Friday, August 29 (handily, the last Friday before a… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines for Thursday, August 28

  By raincoaster on August 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Thursday’s child has, apparently, far to go. But we have only about 36 little hours to go until the weekend, so grab these attractively-arrayed stair wires and hang in there. We’ve got your news headlines to make the time pass… Read More ›

• Download of the Day: Circumventing Censorship by FLOSS Manuals

  By raincoaster on August 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  “The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” John Gilmore You’ll want this even if you never use it (and if you never use it, you’re a fool). FLOSS Manuals is a multilingual site for the dissemination and… Read More ›

• Inside The Mind Of A Killer: Mark David Chapman Reveals Why He ‘Couldn’t Resist’ Killing John Lennon In Transcript Of His Latest Parole Board Appearance — Wanted ‘Fame,’ ‘Infamy, Notoriety’

  By raincoaster on August 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Inside the mind of a killer. Are they by definition crazy, are they evil, are they people just like us who made choices we cannot imagine for reasons we can never understand? Read what the killer actually says about himself.

• GoPro Unveils First Mount For Pets

  By raincoaster on August 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
  A useful addition to our growing library of “things that make that bloody animal useful.” See also our post on Weaponizing Your Pets: War Kitteh and Denial of Service Dog. LibertasIntel View original post

• Vintage Longreads: The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era by Vernor Vinge

  By raincoaster on August 27, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Today’s loooooooong read from the dusty recesses of the distant digital past, which is to say 1993 which was 21 years ago GOD I’M OLD, comes to us from philosopher and mathematician Verner Vinge. In this seminal paper in the… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto News for Wednesday, August 27

  By raincoaster on August 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Today we’re featuring trolls, dark markets, drones, racists, banks, and idiots, among other fragrant denizens of The Cryptosphere. Enjoy? And make sure your shots are up to date before clicking. Black Market Cannabis Road Hacked, $100,000 in Bitcoin Lost (Coindesk)… Read More ›

• All articles of the Gaza ceasefire agreement

  By raincoaster on August 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Occupied Palestine | فلسطين:
  [ PIC 27/08/2014 – 09:28 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian resistance has reached an agreement Tuesday with Israel on a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip under Egyptian mediation after more than 50 days…

• OMG, you would not BELIEVE what Facebook thinks about click-baiting

  By raincoaster on August 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  OMG I cannot BELIEVE I’m going to have to rethink my social media strategy!!!1!

• Meet Blackrock: new James Bond movie villain or Too Big To Fail financial powerhouse?

  By raincoaster on August 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Or both. Are there any readers out there old enough to remember the story of the original Too Smart and Too Big to Fail money manager, Nobel-prizewinner-packed Long Term Capital Management? It didn’t last in the long term at all, ironically…. Read More ›

• A Bit Of Good News From Syria

  By raincoaster on August 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on The Dish:
  by Dish Staff In contrast to the brutal murder of James Foley, another American journalist held captive in Syria since 2012 was released over the weekend by al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra: Peter Theo Curtis…

• Couple Accused Of Stealing $16K By Exploiting Debit Card With Magically Increasing Balance

  By raincoaster on August 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  How do I get my hands on one of these cards?

• Marchers remember 1974 Anicinabe Park Occupation

  By raincoaster on August 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on Warrior Publications:
  Kenora Online, Published on Aug 22, 2014 On the 40th anniversary of the Anicinabe Park uprising in Kenora, Lorraine Major and Roslyn Kelly offer their thoughts.

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News Roundup for Tuesday, August 26

  By raincoaster on August 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  We’ve got a massive roundup for you today, but don’t worry: there will not, repeat NOT, be a quiz later. Which is a good thing because I don’t have time to write one! To the news!!! Amateur detective tracks down… Read More ›

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