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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI released a summary of their inquiry into the alleged hacking of Democratic Party servers during the 2016 elections by groups working at the behest of the Russian government.
Veteran intelligence analyst and NSA whistleblower William Binney, who has criticized as inadequate the CIA's public case arguing Russian responsibility for the hacking, does not find the new report convincing.
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Gov. Cuomo vetoed a bill late Saturday that would have required the state to fund legal services for the poor in each county.
Cuomo's office in a New Year's Eve statement released just over an hour before the bill was required to be signed or vetoed said last-minute negotiations with the Legislature to address the governor's concerns failed to yield a deal.
"Until the last possible moment, we attempted to reach an agreement with the Legislature that would have achieved the stated goal of this legislation, been fiscally responsible, and had additional safeguards to ensure accountability and transparency," Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi said. "Unfortunately, an agreement was unable to be reached and the Legislature was committed to a flawed bill that placed an $800 million burden on taxpayers - $600 million of which was unnecessary - with no way to pay for it and no plan to make one."
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Snopes, one of the new arbiters of Fake News for Facebook, has been utterly remiss in its fact-checking duties by failing to report the false allegation The Russians hacked into Vermont's power grid - perhaps because the original claim appeared in the Washington Post.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin followed up a warm letter to Donald Trump with a more terse message for U.S. Democrats Friday: Don't blame me for your November drubbing.
President-elect Trump on Friday released the Dec. 15 note from Putin, who Democrats blame for tilting the election Trump won against Hillary Clinton, and called it a "very nice letter."
In it, Putin wished Trump "warmest Christmas" greetings and expressed hope that Trump would "bring our level of collaboration on the international scene to a qualitatively new level."
In addition to praising the tone of the letter from Putin, Trump said, "His thoughts are so correct. I hope both sides are able to live up to these thoughts, and we do not have to travel an alternate path."
But Putin, in a year-ending address from Moscow Friday, had a different message for Democrats as he offered his analysis of the American political scene.
"Democrats are losing on every front and looking for people to blame everywhere," he said. "They need to learn to lose with dignity.
"The Democratic Party lost not only the presidential elections, but elections in the Senate and Congress. .…Is that also my work?" he said.
He went on to ridicule Democrats for never-say-die efforts to overturn the Nov. 8 presidential election, first by calling for recounts, then trying to get electors to flip.
"The fact that the current ruling party called Democratic has blatantly forgotten the original definition of its name is evident if one takes into consideration unscrupulous use of administrative resource and appeals to electors not to concede to voters' choice," Putin said, according to the Russian news agency Tass.
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Finland kicked off its basic income program Monday, giving US$587 per month to 2,000 of its citizens, an amount that - if extended to the entire adult population - will be guaranteed regardless of income, wealth or employment status.
The trial program will run for a period of two years. Participants were randomly selected, but had to be receiving unemployment benefits or an income subsidy to be eligible.
The government said it had chosen the figure for an unconditional basic income in line with a manifesto pledge by centrist Prime Minister Juha Sipila, who took office late 2015. If the idea proves to be successful it will be expanded to all adults in Finland.
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They need to take their money, step away from politics and hope no one follows their example.
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Netanyahu was questioned at his home by a team of investigators on Monday evening, the Haaretz newspaper reports. The questioning comes amid a probe authorized by Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit, who after accessing preliminary evidence, decided there was enough scope for a full-scale inquiry.
According to Haaretz, police had been trying for days to find a suitable time to question Netanyahu.
This interrogation comprises two separate cases against the prime minister. The first, and less serious, relates to gifts Netanyahu had received from several business people, alleged to be worth hundreds of thousands of shekels.
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Yep!
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My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.
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U.S. government officials have been notified of new cases of attempted or potentially successful cyber intrusions, CBS News has learned.
Officials would not go into specifics or reveal the number of new cases. But the revelation raises concerns that Russian cyberattacks have been more extensive than originally thought. Since the U.S released a report on election-related cyberattacks on Thursday, a government official said more cases have come to light, CBS News' Justice and Homeland Security correspondent Jeff Pegues reports.
The intelligence information made public last week revealed some of the tools and infrastructure allegedly used by Russian hacking units. Those signatures were flagged over the weekend after officials connected with Vermont's electric grid confirmed that malware code used in operation "Grizzly Steppe" was found on a Burlington Electric Department laptop.
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The universal basic income - a cash payment made to every individual in the country - has been critiqued recently by some commentators. Among other things, these writers dislike the fact that a UBI would deliver individuals income in a way that is divorced from working. Such an income arrangement would, it is argued, lead to meaninglessness, social dysfunction, and resentment.
One obvious problem with this analysis is that passive income - income divorced from work - already exists. It is called capital income. It flows out to various individuals in society in the form of interest, rents, and dividends. According to Piketty, Saez, and Zucman (PSZ), around 30 percent of all the income produced in the nation is paid out as capital income
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Here, Debbie assaults the lies, fake news, propaganda that is our modern "media", Military Industrial Legislative Complex and other elected officials (Obama).
YOU GO DEBBIE!
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