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South Korean parliament has voted to impeach the president Park Guen-hye after a scandal involving a close friend Choi Soon-sil.

>South Korea's parliament has voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye over a corruption scandal.

>The motion passed by 234 votes to 56, meaning some members of Ms Park's ruling Saenuri party voted in favour.

>Hwang Kyo-ahn, the country's prime minister, has become interim president.

>Thousands of people took to the streets in recent weeks demanding Ms Park's removal. After the vote, she again apologised that she had "created this national chaos with my carelessness".

>At the heart of the crisis is the relationship between Ms Park and a close confidante, Choi Soon-sil, who stands accused of using her connections to gain influence and financial benefits.

>She is custody, facing charges of coercion and abuse of power.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38259984

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/wikileaks-turkey-isis-oil-minister-email-cache-leaks-claims-a7460736.html

>More than 57,000 emails reportedly from account of Minister of Oil Berat Albayrak, son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hacked by activist collective Redhack

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/12/07/latest-wikileaks-dump-sheds-light-erdogan-turkey-berat-albayrak-redhack-hackers-oil/

>Wikileaks released over 57,000 emails of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son-in-law, Berat Albayrak, who just happens to be Turkey’s minister of energy and natural resources. The emails showcase Albayrak’s strong influence in Turkey’s halls of power and reveal the inner workings of an increasingly oppressive government that many Western leaders struggle to understand.

>The leak, sourced to a communist hacktivist group known as Redhack that has targeted the Turkish government in the past, span 16 years worth of what appears to be Albayrak’s personal emails from 2000 to 2016. Neither Albayrak nor the Turkish government has yet confirmed the authenticity of the leaks. But if the leaks are legitimate, Albayrak has a major PR headache on his hands.

>Perhaps the most damning allegation is that Albayrak may have had indirect ties to ISIS’s oil trade — a trade that bankrolls the terrorist group’s operations — through a company called Powertrans.

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Some people in the military say that the hacked documents include provisional plans for large-scale South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises such as the Ulchi Freedom Guardian and special warfare plans against the North. Even though they are provisional plans, they are based on actual operational plans and are thus not too different from the real ones.

If the hacked operational plan is the OPCON 5015, a new South Korea-U.S. joint operational plan signed in June last year and applied to joint military exercises for the first time in March this year, the incident is extremely serious. OPCON 5015 is the highest-level of operational plan that includes measures against North Korea’s use of weapons of mass destruction and cyber, biological and chemical warfare. When the National Assembly’s National Defense Committee asked the Defense Ministry to brief on OPCON 5015, Defense Minister Han Min-koo refused to do so, saying that if the plan is revealed, it would have to be scrapped and replaced with a new one.

http://english.donga.com/Home/3/all/26/798611/1

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It's practically straight out of a "Bad Santa" movie.

A North Carolina mother wants the local Santa Claus fired after saying things that put her 9-year-old son in tears.

On Saturday, an otherwise jolly time on Main Street led to a holiday moment the boy would like to forget.

"I went out and started crying, because I just felt so bad," Anthony Mayse said of his conversation with Father Christmas.


"When he got done, he said, 'Lay off the hamburgers and french fries,'" he recalled. "And that really just disrespected me, and I felt awful."

"This year we thought it'd be fun to take the carriage ride and let the kids ice skate and go see Santa," mom Ashley said.

Meeting St. Nick should have been the kicker, not the heartbreaker.

According to Anthony and his mother, he sure didn't act like a saint.

"He acted like he didn't want to be there to do the job," Ashley said.

Anthony was asking for an iPod Touch and a drone for Christmas when the family said he was body shamed.

"Very rude. I've never seen anything like it," Ashley told News 13. "What set me off is when he started crying."


The polar opposite to tears of joy.

"I was just mind-blown," Ashley said. "I wished a million times that we never went."

"It affected me so bad that I was crying until I went to bed that night," Anthony said. "And I want to say to him, 'You don't want to disrespect a 9-year-old. Even though what shape and size you are, it doesn't matter.'"

He later tore up his picture with Mr. Claus, who's employed by Forest City to spread good cheer.

The town manager said Santa had apologized to both the supervisor and the Mayse family. He wouldn't tell News 13 whether disciplinary action was taken.


http://wlos.com/news/local/boy-claims-he-was-body-shamed-by-st-nick

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>Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan confirmed the rumors Wednesday.

>Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan confirmed rumors that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was considering building luxury hotels and resorts in Taiwan’s Taoyuan City, according to media reports Wednesday.

>A woman working for the Trump Organization came to Taoyuan in September, declaring the company’s investment interest in Taiwan’s Taoyuan Aerotropolis, a large urban planning development project surrounding the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.

>However, given the megaproject plan is still under review, the meeting was merely a form of gesture, the mayor said, according to media reports.

>Reports also said the meeting suggested that Eric Trump, the son of the President-elect, will come to Taiwan personally to see about the potential business opportunity by the end of the year.

>Trump had in the past pledged to separate his economic interests from presidential responsibilities, were he elected. In a campaign event back in January, the business tycoon said that he would hand over control of his enterprises to his family members.

>"If I become president, I couldn't care less about my company. It's peanuts," he said during a campaign event in January. “I have Ivanka, Eric, and Don sitting there. Run the company kids, have a good time.”

>However, there is no law requiring the president of the United States to do so, leading many to believe that Trump’s massive business empire would make him more prone to conflict of interest than any other president in American history.

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38241833

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http://www.wafb.com/story/33992691/ebr-teacher-fired-after-video-appears-to-show-her-hitting-a-student

Student in East Baton Rouge School System located in Louisiana beaten by teacher with an extension cord. the child attempted to run away but slipped and fell, then the teacher proceeds to hit the child repeatedly on the legs with the cable while the child has a grin on her face.

The teacher, needless to say, got wrecked. She may be catching charges, the parents are suing, the school system kicked her from their parish, and shes basically screwed from ever getting a job involving children ever again.

Now that that's out of the way, Here's what i think happened:

>Be 13 year old kid who just got play whipped by the teacher

>Friend records it and you ask for a copy to share on social media and for your own entertainment.

>Thinking mom would find it equally as funny, you show it to her

>Mom sees and stars thinking L A W $ U I T

>Mom turn the "graphic" and "tense"video into local TV station

Long story short, teacher gets fucked. In my opinion, I think they should have been a bit softer on the teacher, but there is two sides to the coin. The teacher should have never played with the student like that anyway. Everyone has phones these days, so you should have expected to be recorded.

What does /news/ think about this and the current state of U.S education as a whole?

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In early November, as Wikileaks steadily released piles of emails from Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta, one contact caught the attention of prankster sites and people on the paranoid fringes.

The saga of 'Pizzagate': The fake story that shows how conspiracy theories spread
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-38156985

I may have missed it, but the article fails to show the emails that mention pizza. If they were to publish these emails, people would be allowed to form their own opinions.

Rather than show images of the *modern art* depicting children in their underwear, the BBC have opted to display a photo of a pizza.

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A Colorado landlord is facing a felony charge after a motion detection camera recorded him having sex with another man in a tenant’s apartment, police report.

According to cops, Carlos Quijada illegally entered the Colorado Springs residence of Logan Pierce and Mikaela DiGiulio in late-November. While the married couple was not home, their four-camera Nest security system was guarding the condominium.

After Quijada, 39, entered the residence, Pierce received a notification on his phone that the Nest system had detected noise in the apartment.

When Pierce subsequently checked the camera feeds, he saw Quijada and another man inside his bedroom.

The video shows the men each removing their pants immediately upon entering the room and then climbing atop the bed. Following a six-minute round of oral and anal sex, Quijada’s partner used one of DiGiulio’s dresses--plucked from a laundry pile--to wipe his genitals. At one point, Quijada uses another garment to attack a lubricant stain left on the green bed sheet.

Pierce, who provided the X-rated security video to TSG, said that the blue dress used as a post-sex clean-up rag was worn by his wife at the couple’s March wedding ceremony.

Pierce and DiGiulio--who rented the $1100-a-month apartment after responding in July to a Craigslist ad--vacated the premises shortly after Quijada used their home as a hook-up spot. The couple is now living at a Super 8 hotel where DiGiulio is employed (and where Pierce works part-time).

After being provided with the security footage, the Colorado Springs Police Department issued an arrest warrant charging Quijada with criminal trespassing, a felony, and misdemeanor obscenity.

Quijada (right) and his partner are seen in the above screenshot from the security video.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/sex/landlord-caught-on-camera-183047

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38257445

>Former astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, has died at 95.

>The ex-Marine and US Senator had been in hospital in Columbus, Ohio, for more than a week and died surrounded by his children and wife of 73 years.

>Glenn is best known for circling the earth in 1962 aboard a space capsule dubbed Friendship 7.

>He was credited with restoring US pride after the Soviet Union took an early lead in manned space exploration.

>Glenn is expected to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sopranos-star-imperioli-son-painted-swastika-dorm-cops-article-1.2902344

>The son of a “Sopranos” actor was arrested for scrawling a swastika on a dorm wall at Purchase College, according to reports.

>Vadim Imperioli, 19, the son of actor Michael Imperioli, faces charges of criminal mischief for spray-painting the Nazi symbol on a bulletin board on Nov. 21, according to the Journal News.

>“We assisted SUNY Purchase police,” Capt. Doug Larkin of the New York State Police told the newspaper Wednesday. “He was arrested for the swastika incident.”

>Imperioli was in court Tuesday on unrelated petty larceny charges when the vandalism was brought up by prosecutors.

>The California-raised troublemaker is a film student at Purchase, according to his Facebook page.

>But his attorney told a judge a different story on Tuesday.

>"I don’t believe he’s still going to that school,” attorney Russell Smith said, according to the Journal News.

>Prosecutors said that Imperioli served three years’ probation for vandalism in California and had been involved in a case of “criminal mischief since his last time in this court,” the newspaper reported.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/12/07/drive--shooting-mannequin-challenge-leads-arrests/95084110/

>Video of a mannequin challenge depicting a drive-by shooting led to two arrests in Alabama this week.

>The video, which was posted on Facebook in early November, showed multiple men pointing guns at each other in frozen positions as music played in the background, AL.com reported.

>Madison County Sheriff's Office Capt. Mike Salomonsky said the video prompted investigators to begin gathering evidence to secure a warrant, AL.com reported.

>Salomonsky said officers served the warrant around 5 a.m. on Tuesday and found two hand guns, a rifle, and a shotgun, along with marijuana and ammunition at the house in Huntsville, Ala.

>Officers arrested Kenneth Fennell White, 49, and Terry Brown, 23.

>Brown was charged with promoting prison contraband, drug paraphernalia possession, and loitering.

>White was charged with possession of a firearm by a violent felon and first-degree possession of marijuana.

>Salomonsky said there will likely be additional arrests, WHNT-TV reported.

>"There are several persons in the video who may be convicted felons," Capt. Salomonsky said. "So, we're going to try to do some identification, work with the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms) and see if we can generate any charges out of that."
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IN THE TROVE of documents provided by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is a treasure. It begins with a riddle: “What do the President of Pakistan, a cigar smuggler, an arms dealer, a counterterrorism target, and a combatting proliferation target have in common? They all used their everyday GSM phone during a flight.”

This riddle appeared in 2010 in SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate, or SID, and it was classified “top secret.” It announced the emergence of a new field of espionage that had not yet been explored: the interception of data from phone calls made on board civil aircraft. In a separate internal document from a year earlier, the NSA reported that 50,000 people had already used their mobile phones in flight as of December 2008, a figure that rose to 100,000 by February 2009. The NSA attributed the increase to “more planes equipped with in-flight GSM capability, less fear that a plane will crash due to making/receiving a call, not as expensive as people thought.” The sky seemed to belong to the agency.

In a 2012 presentation, Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, the British equivalent of the NSA, in turn disclosed a program called Southwinds, which was used to gather all the cellular activity, voice communication, data, metadata, and content of calls on board commercial aircraft. The document, designated “top secret strap,” one of the highest British classification levels, said the program was still restricted to the regions covered by satellites from British telecommunications provider Inmarsat: Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

The data was collected “in near real time” and an aircraft could be tracked every two minutes, according to the presentation. To spy on a telephone, all that was required was that the aircraft be cruising at an altitude above 10,000 feet.

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/07/american-and-british-spy-agencies-targeted-in-flight-mobile-phone-use/

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http://www.businessinsider.com/google-replaced-in-the-news-in-desktop-search-2016-12
>In the wake of criticism over fake news on its platform, Google is removing its "In the news" section from the top of desktop search, and replacing it with a carousel of "Top stories," similar to what exists on mobile. ...
> The removal of the word "news" will, hopefully, help draw a sharper line between Google's human-vetted Google News product, and its main search product.

>Last month, Google faced scrutiny when one of its top results for “final election count” was fake news. The top result in Google Search's “In the news” section was a Wordpress blog named “70 News,” which falsely claimed Trump won the popular vote by a margin of almost 700,000. (He didn’t).
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related:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/fake-news-sites-inadvertently-funded-by-big-brands-1481193004

>Well-known brands’ appearance on fake-news sites reflects the complexity of online advertising, where computers can place a different ad each time a user clicks on a webpage. Multiple middlemen are often involved, leaving both publishers and advertisers uncertain about which ads will appear where.

>“We don’t even get passed the name of the publisher” where an ad will appear, said Adam Berke, president of AdRoll Inc., which helps advertisers like LendingClub Corp. and Air New Zealand place ads online. He said AdRoll finds ad space on websites through several partners and doesn’t have the resources to vet websites.

>One of AdRoll’s partners is Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which along with Facebook Inc. announced steps last month to prevent fake-news sites from generating revenue through their ad-selling services.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/nyregion/alonzo-knowles-celebrity-hacker.html

>A Bahamian man who hacked into the email accounts of celebrities and athletes and later wrote in a jailhouse email that after his release he would “shake up hollywood for real!” was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday.

>The sentence was roughly double the number of years suggested under federal sentencing guidelines.

>The man, Alonzo Knowles, 24, had used his illicit access to the celebrity accounts to obtain unreleased movie and television scripts and personal information, which he then tried to sell for thousands of dollars, prosecutors said. Mr. Knowles had also stolen unreleased music, financial documents, and nude and intimate images and videos, the government said.

>Kristy J. Greenberg, a prosecutor, said in Federal District Court in Manhattan that Mr. Knowles’s motivation had been greed. “He had a singular focus on becoming rich and famous,” she said, “by disseminating personal information of celebrities and exploiting them.”

>Several victims had submitted statements to the judge. Naturi Naughton, an actress in the Starz drama “Power,” said in a video statement that Mr. Knowles had hacked her personal emails and stolen six scripts of the show, and then “tried to extort me, the producer, 50 Cent and my showrunner.”

>“I have never felt more violated and out of control in my entire life,” Ms. Naughton said.

>Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of Federal District Court called Mr. Knowles’s crimes “deeply troubling,” and told him that he had chosen to use “your gifts, your know-how, for dark and lawless ends.”
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