Monthly Archives: December 2014

Sexy Russian spy ‘tried to seduce’ Snowden – New York Post – The Mindanao Examiner

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SEXY RUSSIAN SPY Anna Chapman tried to seduce whistleblower Edward Snowden on orders straight from the Kremlin, according to a defector.

Boris Karpichkov, a former KGB agent, claims that a plan was launched for Chapman, 32, to keep Snowden, 31, in Moscow so that Russian agents could continue to question him about US security secrets, according to a new report.

Snowden and Chapman met only once, Karpichkov said. But Chapman followed up that meeting last year with a tweet heard round the world.

Snowden, she tweeted, will you marry me?!

According to Karpichkov, it was all a part of the plan.

But Snowden became concerned about what the consequences would be, Karpichkov told Londons Sunday People.If Snowden had accepted, he would have a right to Russian citizenship. That would lock him in Russia. As a citizen hed need permission to leave.

Last year, Chapman walked out of an NBC interview in Moscow after the spy-turned-Russian celebrity refused to answer questions about her proposal to Snowden.

The real-life Bond girl made headlines in 2010 when she was revealed to be part of a sleeper cell of Russian agents in the US and her sexy personal snapshots went viral.

Not long after her outing, she was deported to Russia with nine other spies as part of a massive swap.

Before being outed as a spy, Chapman the daughter of a Russian diplomat worked as a real estate agent in New York City.

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‘Citizenfour’ takes top honor at IDA Documentary Awards

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"Citizenfour," Laura Poitras' film about NSA document leaker Edward Snowden, won the International Documentary Assn.'s prize for best feature at the 2014 IDA Awards on Friday evening.

Poitras' third documentary in a trilogy about post-9/11 America, "Citizenfour" is a you-are-there account of Snowden's decision, with Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald, to expose the National Security Agency's massive surveillance operation collecting the personal data of ordinary citizens.

"Citizenfour" debuted to a rare standing ovation at the New York Film Festival in October and made the Oscar shortlist for documentary features earlier this week; it also won the Gotham Award for best documentary.

The IDA's award for best short went to Johnny Burke and Andrew Hinton's "Tashi and the Monk," about a Buddhist monk running a community for orphaned and neglected children in India. The short also garnered the Pare Lorentz Award, which recognizes films focusing on environmental and social issues.

Robert Redford received the IDA's Career Achievement Award, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato received the Pioneer Award, and Rithy Panh received the Preservation and Scholarship Award.

Hosted by writer and comedienne Carol Leifer, the ceremony also included the debut of three new series awards: "Our America With Lisa Ling" won for best episodic series, "Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt" won for best short-form series, and "Independent Lens" won for best curated series.

For a full list of winners, go to the IDA Awards website.

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Julian Assange’s Times Story Will Appear in Print on December 31, 1969

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Who Should Own the Internet? WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange wrote in a story posted on the opinion page ofThe New York Times website today. But according to a note at the bottom of the piece about living in a surveillance state, a print version will run on December 31, 1969, in The International New York Times.

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Now, we obviously assume this a technical glitch, as Mr. Assange wasnt born until 1971 and the Internet as we know it today wasnt around on the eve of the 1970s. But the the date mix-up is especially ironic given the subject.

It is now a journalistic clich to remark that George Orwells 1984 was prophetic,' Mr. Assange wrote. But what would bereally prophetic, of course, is if this story had actually run 45 years ago.

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Warning over fake Bitcoin Foundation sites scamming …

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Summary:Fraudsters are targeting Bitcoin users with phoney The Bitcoin Foundation websites and sending potential victims to a fake Bitcoin wallet designed to phish their credentials.

The latest ruse to scam Bitcoin owners out of their holdings is websites posing as The Bitcoin Foundation and capitalising on concerns over the cryptocurrency's falling price.

The Bitcoin Foundation said on Monday that it has seen a spike in complaints to its helpdesk over a fraud campaign where scammers direct Bitcoin users to spoofed versions of the foundation's site.

The two scam domains the foundation is aware of are: bitcompensation.com and bitsecuretransfer.com. According to whois.is, both were registered in mid-November by what appears to be the same person.

"The Bitcoin Foundation's website is being cloned and spoofed at web addresses and domains that have absolutely nothing to do with the Bitcoin Foundation," it said.

"If you are contacted and directed to a page that looks like the screenshot below, please close your browser as you are about to be scammed out of your Bitcoins."

Both sites present a 'compensating the users' campaign, purportedly run by the foundation and another fictitious organisation, and urge users to supply their bitcoin address in a field in order to redeem their 'gift'.

The campaign attempts to trick less knowledgeable users who feel they've "lost too much" as a result of Bitcoin's falling price over recent months. This time last year, it was trading at over $1,100; today it's worth $380.

"Since the price of the bitcoin went down a lot, members of the bitcoin community have lost too much," the scam sites read. "To decrease these loss and to sustain our coin, we, The Bitcoin Foundation together with Blockchain, are going to offer to each of our members a random amount of coins."

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