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Confirmed: US Cyber Attack Behind North Korean Internet Outage

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Written by: theantimedia.org

 

Cyber terrorism is bad thing. In fact, according to the US government, it’s a major crime which is punishable by life in prison.

However, on the heels of Sony’s recent hacking and subsequent blaming of the North Korean government, the US has sanctioned its own cyber terror attack against North Korea, according to a credible source who contacted The Anti-Media. At the time of posting the article, North Korea has completely disappeared from the internet. The damage the US is hoping to do is not just intellectual, but is aimed at causing physical harm to the North Korean economy and by default its civilian population.

But it doesn’t stop there. According to our sources, the US is also planning on launching more cyber attacks against North Korea’s banking system which could start as early as tonight.

There’s more. Though not concrete, there is also talk of covert military actions against North Korean infrastructure which include: hospitals, military bases, and nuclear facilities in the very near future.

The most troublesome of all these acts is that it’s highly unlikely that the North Korean government was actually behind the hacking of Sony. Firstly, North Korean technology is years, if not decades behind current US cyber security standards. Secondly, North Korea had all but nothing to gain from hacking Sony. As we reported on Saturday, Sony employees with knowledge of their network security believe it was an inside job:

“My gut instinct was, ‘Oh no, is it the North Koreans?…For two seconds it was the North Koreans, and then the younger guys in our office who know way more about computers were, like, ‘No way. You’d have to know Sony’s network, it has to be somebody on the inside,” –Evan Goldberg, co-director of The Interview

Furthermore, hackers from the Anonymous Collective have also said that North Korea is not behind the hack:

“While the FBI, President Obama, and George Clooney seem thoroughly convinced that the Guardians of Peace are the work of Pyongyang—the name “Guardians of Peace” comes from a quote used by former President Richard Nixon describing South Korea—many hackers online have questioned the allocation of blame from Day One, including former Lulzsec hacker turned government information Sabu, who maintains they “don’t have the technical capabilities,” and Anonymous, who wrote, “we all know the hacks didn’t come from North Korea,” and threatened to launch further hacks against Sony if they don’t release the film online.”

Barack Obama has promised to retaliate against North Korea for hacking the Japanese company, and he has followed through on his promise it seems.

Why is the US government conducting cyber espionage against foreign governments over the hacking of a private corporation? Why have US officials placed sole blame on the North Korean government without having evidence that they were indeed behind the attack? Will the US be held to its own legal standard when it comes to being punished for cyber terrorism?

Let’s hope that this information can help prevent another needless US government incursion into a foreign government’s internal affairs.

2 People Shot by Police in 6 Days In Small Colorado Town

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Written by: Cassius Methyl at theantimedia.org

In Cañon City, Colorado, two people were shot by police in just 6 days. 

This is a very small town that barely has any crime. It should be surprising that police are killing people here, in a place with virtually no crime rate compared to places like LA, Oakland, or Chicago.

A Denver Post article said–

“About 9 a.m. on Thursday officers were dispatched to the 2000 block of east Main Street on reports that a man had a knife and was making threats. Officers searched the area, eventually locating the man who led them on a “short foot pursuit,” police say.

The pursuit “ended with the subject turning and charging the officers making threatening gestures. One officer fired his handgun and the subject was struck.”

The man, identified as Brandon Atencio of Colorado Springs, was shot on the 500 block of Orchard Avenue and taken to St. Thomas More Hospital in Cañon City where he died. Carlette Brocious, the Fremont County coroner, said Atencio was pronounced dead about 10 a.m.

Another incident with scarce details, and shady, seemingly unlikely circumstances occurred on Monday in this small Colorado town.

An unidentified man was killed by police on Monday ‘after robbing a police supply store’ and allegedly stabbing an officer.

Whether or not the circumstances described were true, we will surely never see proof illustrating why these cops had to kill these people. These are just more incidents of police killing people, going under the radar of the media and our collective awareness.

As long as police think they can do this, kill anyone who barely resembles a threat, facing no consequences afterwards, they will do it.

At this point, it is just getting ridiculous. Are of these cops irrationally paranoid? Do they just not care, knowing they won’t face consequences for these killings?

Please share this with as many people as possible; people who have witnessed the recent nationwide protests unfold in opposition to events just like this, people who are familiar with our epidemic of police brutality and murder, and those who are unaware. However at this point, few people are unaware of the epidemic of police killings. We have to keep publicizing these incidents or they will just keep coming.

“Revolution is Not a One Time Event.”

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Liberty. Equality. Fraternity. Vive la revolution. It is what we are seeing before us. The early rumblings of a discontent within the society in which we live. “Revolution is not a one time event.”

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The recent protests over Eric Garner’s death, as a result of a choke hold gone wrong, questions not the concern of race or police brutality, but where the justice system has dramatically failed us all. What encompasses the chanting of phrases such as ‘no peace, no justice,’ by all walks of life a fortnight ago, displays a growing consensus that there is a miscarriage in the justice system that is said to represent us all equally. Those very citizens who it was once established for in the midst of revolutions and social upheavals; through the written constitution; now suffer at the hands of those who refuse to acknowledge the problem. Our very freedoms are at risk of further deterioration.

The end result is this: that the public deserve more answers than they are given. The justice system fails to provide the safety that it should for its citizens, and as a response, the government attempts to poorly conceal the evidence of their shortcomings. But we all know this…people are starting to wake to the problems we now face.

The demonstrations that are moving in waves across the United States and other parts of the world are the result of not one single incident, but the frustrations of many over the years where the injustice serves only those who perpetuate the system. It has failed to provide the public the truth that they know they deserve.

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The people are angry. The people are starting to wake up. Now we want answers.

Miami Cop Sees Graffiti Artist ‘Tag’ a Building, Runs Him Over With His Car

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Written by: Vandita

 

Delbert Rodriguez Gutierrez, a 21-year-old street artist died after being run over by a Miami police car during a chase in Wynwood. Delbert, who goes by the name ‘Demz’ succumbed to severe brain injury in Jackson Memorial Hospital. He was ‘caught’ tagging a building on December 9 near Northwest 5th Avenue and 24th Street at 2 am.

Graffiti are common in Wynwood, an art district in Miami, and it is known that artists go into agreements where they are allowed to tag on buildings. However, in Demz’s case it was not clear whether he had the required permission as police claim that he fled as soon as he saw police was approaching him.

Detective Michael Cadavid, who chased Demz in his unmarked patrol car that ran him over, claimed that Demz hid between two cars, jumped out seeing Cadavid, and was accidentally struck under his car.

Sadly, Demz was killed during Art Basel, one of the biggest art fairs in the world. Coincidentally, the incident happened just hours before a protest was held against police brutality in Miami to remember 18-year-old Israel Reefa Hernandez, also a graffiti artist, killed by a Miami Beach police officer in 2013 after he shocked Reefa with a taser.

Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa called it a tragic accident. “The officer is devastated, and I understand the family is devastated as well,” Orosa said. “It’s unfortunate that the young man tried to run from police”.

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Source:

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/street-artist-critical-condition-facing-death-police-car-ran/

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article4296547.html

 

Apache Grounds Seized by Congress, Others at Risk

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In a more recent move by Congress, chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, Terry Rambler, has witnessed an attempt to land grab sacred Apache grounds. The Apache burial and ceremonial grounds surrounding the renowned Apache Leap area, will cover a massive 2400 acres of Tonto National Forest in Arizona.

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The bill if passed, specifies the subsidiary of mining giant, Rio Tinto, Resolution Copper, will be able to get permission to drill within 30 or 90 days. It is a deal that Rio Tinto has pursued for close to a decade, being knocked back twice in 2013. The Democrats and Republicans opposed the move over concerns that Rio Tinto who is part owner in a Uranium mine with Africa and Iran that most of the copper removed from the new mines would land in the lap of China, who holds a large 10 percent share of the mining company.

Congress argues the land grab in the name of economics. A reported 3700 jobs will result in the next four decades over the new mining ventures, and could generate up to 61 billion US dollars for the economy. But the figures don’t wash with Apache chairman, Terry Rambler, who is more concerned with the environment and the impact the mining, and a technique called ‘block mining’ will have on the area. “What those mountains mean to us is that when the rain and the snow comes, it distributes it to us,” Rambler said. “It replenishes our aquifers to give us life.” [1]

 

The push for the land exchange[2] is moving under a guise to be slipped into the defense bill; also raising alarms for those opposed. But this single example isn’t the only case. Dozens of land-related items are being edged under this umbrella, one being the Handford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State involving some 1600 acres. Placing these items under the defense bill essentially locks in ‘protected’ Federal lands.

Another deal, opposed by environmental groups is Sealaska, covering over 70,000 acres of Tongass National Forest for logging. [3]

Myron Ebell, the director of the Center for Energy and Environment, also slammed it in a statement. “The federal lands package added to the National Defense Authorization Act is a backroom deal that would lock up use of hundreds of thousands of acres of land…Many of these federal land lockups could never be enacted on their own if debated and voted in the light of day.”

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[1] McAluiff, M. (2014, 3 December) Congress Raids Ancestral Native American Lands with Defense Bill http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/ndaa-land-deals_n_6264362.html (Retrieved 2014, 23 December)

[2] Bucci, S. (2014, 3 December) Political Games Endanger America’s Military http://dailysignal.com/2014/12/03/political-games-endanger-americas-military/?utm_source=heritageaction&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=comm-press&utm_content= (Retrieved 2014, 23 December)

[3] Viechnicki, J. (2014, 8 December) Sealaska land transfer includes logging, energy, cemetery sites http://www.ktoo.org/2014/12/08/sealaska-land-transfer-includes-logging-energy-cemetery-sites/ (Retrieved 2014, 23 December)

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