I’d like to invite you to view our Best of 2014 slide show, which highlights our victories and progress on many fronts.
Here’s a sample:
The Physicians Committee led an international grassroots effort to convince the Taiwanese government to shelve plans for rabies experiments on beagle puppies. The beagles were spared!
The FBI and the President may claim that the Hermit Kingdom is to blame for the most high-profile network breach in forever. But almost all signs point in another direction.
So, “The Interview” is to be released after all.
The news that the satirical movie—which revolves around a plot to murder Kim Jong-Un—will have a Christmas Day release as planned, will prompt renewed scrutiny of whether, as the US authorities have officially claimed, the cyber attack on Sony really was the work of an elite group of North Korean government hackers.
All the evidence leads me to believe that the great Sony Pictures hack of 2014 is far more likely to be the work of one disgruntled employee facing a pink slip.
Continued:
Internet hacking blame game
So just who hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment? Evidence pointing to the Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea is scant. Was it really all about a rather bad movie that benefited from Canadian tax credits?
via Internet hacking blame game So just who hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment?….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLRYBSnhEok
A deeply emotional look at the Christmas Truce of 1914 – which was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires between German and British soldiers during World War I.
In the week leading up to the holiday, soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk. In areas, men from both sides ventured into no man’s land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs. There were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps, while several meetings ended in carol-singing. Men played games of football with one another, giving one of the most enduring images of the period.
An excerpt from The Truth About World War 1: The Hidden History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8Sj…
Several people have asked Rupert to post the occasional meditation on YouTube, so here’s the first one. It explores the search for happiness and the nature of love.
http://www.rupertspira.com / http://www.sajahapublications.com
What were the most powerful ideas of 2014? Watch our 8-minute highlight reel of the Year in Ideas.
Explore a fun, interactive playlist of the TED Talks of the year at http://yearinideas.ted.com/2014/
Below, a time-coded list of the talks in this video:
00:09
Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space
http://go.ted.com/8bW
00:22
Fabien Cousteau: What I learned spending 31 days underwater
http://go.ted.com/8bs
00:32
Vincent Moon and Nana Vasconcelos: Hidden musical rituals around the world
http://go.ted.com/8bZ
00:42
Daria van den Bercken: Why I take the piano on the road … and in the air
http://go.ted.com/8bw
01:00
Ben Saunders: To the South Pole and back
http://go.ted.com/8b7
01:09
Allan Adams: The discovery that could rewrite physics
http://go.ted.com/8bQ
01:20
Hugh Herr: The new bionics that let us run, climb, dance
http://go.ted.com/8bT
01:29
Leanna Wen: What your doctors won’t disclose
http://go.ted.com/8by
01:41
Manu Prakash: A 50-cent microscope
http://go.ted.com/8bX
01:52
Jorge Soto: The future of early cancer detection?
http://go.ted.com/8bd
02:08
Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power
http://go.ted.com/8bc
02:18
Pia Mancini: How to upgrade democracy
http://go.ted.com/8bU
02:25
Jeremy Heimans: What new power looks like
http://go.ted.com/8bv
02:40
Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world?
http://go.ted.com/8b2
02:51
Michael Green: What the Social Progress Index can reveal about your country
http://go.ted.com/8b5
03:00
Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming
http://go.ted.com/8bM
03:14
Thomas Pikkety: New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century
http://go.ted.com/8bN
03:20
Charmian Gooch: My wish: To launch a new era of openness in business
http://go.ted.com/8b9
03:30
Kenneth Cukier: Big data is better data
http://go.ted.com/8bP
03:37
Jennifer Golbeck: The curly fry conundrum: Why social media ‘likes’ say more than you think
http://go.ted.com/8bf
03:47
Anne Milgram: Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime
http://go.ted.com/8Cp
03:57
Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters
http://go.ted.com/8CC
04:09
Richard Ledgett: The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s TED Talk
http://go.ted.com/8C6
04:19
Edward Snowden: Here’s how we take back the Internet
http://go.ted.com/8CL
04:24
Keren Elazari: Hackers: The Internet’s immune system
http://go.ted.com/8CF
04:34
Melissa Fleming: Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive
http://go.ted.com/8CK
04:40
Kimberley Motley: How I defend the rule of law
http://go.ted.com/8CY
04:47
Eman Mohammed: Courage to tell a hidden story
http://go.ted.com/8Cj
04:54
Sebastian Junger: Why veterans miss war
http://go.ted.com/8Ci
05:00
Kevin Briggs: The bridge between suicide and life
http://go.ted.com/8CD
05:10
Sting: How I started writing songs again
http://go.ted.com/8CB
05:19
Mark Ronson: How sampling transformed music
http://go.ted.com/8Cx
05:24
Sarah Lewis: Embrace the near-win
http://go.ted.com/8Cn
05:30
Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
http://go.ted.com/8C4
05:40
Jamila Lysicott: 3 ways to speak English
http://go.ted.com/8Ca
05:49
Jill Shargaa: Please, please, please, let’s put the ‘awe’ back in ‘awesome’
http://go.ted.com/8CE
06:01
Anne Curzan: What make a word ‘real?’
http://go.ted.com/8Cu
06:14
Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future
http://go.ted.com/8C8
06:28
Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
http://go.ted.com/8CS
06:34
Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age
http://go.ted.com/8CG
06:43
Ziauddin Yousafzai: My daughter, Malala
http://go.ted.com/8Ch
07:03
Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist. Here’s how I chose peace.
http://go.ted.com/8Cq
07:12
Mellody Hobson: Color blind or color brave?
http://go.ted.com/8CH
07:23
Geena Rocero: Why I must come out
http://go.ted.com/8Cm
07:31
Shaka Senghor: Why your worst deeds don’t define you
http://go.ted.com/8Cg
07:43
Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems … palsy is just one
http://go.ted.com/8Ck
08:04
Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly: Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
http://go.ted.com/8CW
08:12
Andrew Solomon: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are
http://go.ted.com/8CR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbEkREYtejA.
Ukraine – the big picture: a year ago this country was at peace, economically viable and sovereign. It had a tolerant political culture. This is not the case today. On this edition of CrossTalk we discuss the tragic odyssey known as Ukraine. CrossTalking with Eric Draitser, Alexander Mercouris and Dmitry Babich.
RT’s Paula Slier met one Israeli who’s chosen to give up his Jewish faith, over his state’s treatment of Arabs.
Recently a group of hackers breached the Sony network and started leaking sensitive information about the company. According to the FBI and the media, the state of North Korea carried out the attack in an attempt to suppress the release of an upcoming film called The Interview. The film is starring Seth Rogen and James Franco and features a controversial scene in which the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un gets assassinated. Sony ultimately decided to pull the release the film, a move which President Obama condemned.
What is the truth about the Sony hack?
Sources: http://www.fdrurl.com/sonyhack
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