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Our news media is sadly evolving now into a monster.

When will the media see themselves in their own true light?

They have abused their freedom to such a point that it now simply borders on malicious forms of propaganda.

Our media outlets certainly understand their power. Their purpose is to impose their will.

Do not step out of line or this media will consume and destroy any merit to your thoughts, including your rights of privilege in the mandate that for us is everything American.

So just how does one tame this monster called the media?

Before we can answer that question, we must broach our own understanding of individual rights.

Our founders gave us freedoms in a way that was reasonable. They gave us our liberty based on the laws of nature and of natures God. To this, they also stated that both as American citizens of this great nation are equally entitled.

Our founders allowed us to choose our path, to decide the virtue of that which is right equally and what is wrong equally, and in the need at times to change it unequally, just as in nature.

To that end, nature can be a hard truth that is owned to no man, but only to natures God.

Abraham Lincoln spoke about those words held within our Declaration of Independence and said that when future generations read these words, they would realize that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration.

There is no equality in nature, only balance, and when this balance is undermined, nature will set a path to reclaim her balance.

To that end no man will persevere or prevail, this outcome belongs only to nature and to natures God alone.

Gerald Tisdell, Casselberry

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Sunday's Lead Letter: America's out-of-control news media - Florida Times-Union

Thai Journalists Association (TJA) president Wanchai Wongmeechai, who attended the seminar on the media regulation bill hosted by Thai Chamber of Commerce University, said he had learned from insiders that the committee would not revise the proposal concerning the media licensing authority.

Under the bill, authority would be passed to a new Media Professional Council as that is what the committee had set their minds on, he said. However, the groups would closely watch the committees moves and take action as necessary, Wanchai added.

Controversial legislation

The proposed legislation has become a highly controversial issue since the committee planned to submit it to the NRSA for endorsement last week. Media organisations, including the TJA and the Thai Broadcast Journalists Association (TBJA), strongly opposed the bill when they heard about its contents.

The media groups challenged two main points, the first of which was the composition of the proposed Media Professional Council, which would see at least four permanent secretaries from concerned ministries sit alongside media representatives and academics. The groups see this as a loophole for state intervention in the media.

The other bone of contention is the media licensing system, which the groups believe will lead to control of the media.

On Thursday, the media groups representatives submitted a letter to the NRSA vice chairman Alongkorn Ponlaboot, conveying their opposition. This resulted in the NRSA whips telling the committee to withdraw the bill for review and revision before resubmitting it.

TBJA chairman Thepchai Yong said the implications of the bill would be more far-reaching than people thought, as it would give power to the state, political sector and capitalists to control the media under the proposed council.

Vague definition

Thepchai said the proposed licensing system was vague in its definition. He urged media members to watch developments and help push for changes as the current suspension cannot ensure that the bill will be revised to facilitate press freedom.

The NRSA members, he said, should deliberate the bill carefully so that it would not eventually put media control in the hands of the state and politicians.

Former reformer from the now-defunct National Reform Council (NRC), Jumpol Rodkamdee, said |the NRC drafted a similar bill but with the principle of supporting press freedom and allowing media members to shape self-regulation. Their bill also proposed the same council but with different composition, including certified members of the media, to facilitate self-regulation.

The seminar heard various proposals for the revision of the latest bill, including a tri-party memorandum of understanding, including the academic and civil sectors, to help the media reform and regulate.

A civil-based council was proposed to replace the one proposed in the bill, so people would have more say in helping regulate the media.

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Media set to keep up its fight on regulation - The Nation

Teenager's death sparked the Black Lives Matter movement amid public outcry

THE parents of killed teenager Trayvon Martin have released a book sharing the colossal impact his death has had on their lives.

The shooting of Martin by neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman sparked the Black Lives Matter movement amid a public outcry over the gunmans controversial acquittal.

Martin Family

Parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martinhave written Rest in Power which pays tribute to their tragic son.

We take a look at the lives of Martin and Zimmerman, the night of the killing in February 2012, and the ongoing aftermath.

Trayvon Martin was just 17-years-old when he was shot dead by neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida.

Martin, who was was born in Miami, was a junior at Dr Michael M. Krop High School in Miami-Dade.

Before his death he had brushed aside his dream of becoming an American football player and had chosen to pursue a carer working with aeroplanes.

The Black Lives Matter movement, which aims to protect black people against civil and human rights abuses, is rooted in the injustices around Martins death.

Orlando Sentinel

George Zimmerman, who was born in Manassas, Virginia, was acquitted of second-degree murder after he shot dead Martin.

He has remained the subject of media attention ever since amid the ongoing controversy around the killing.

He had moved to Florida after graduating and worked for an insurance agency.

Zimmerman was volunteering as a neighbourhood watch volunteer when he killed Martin.

On May 11, 2015, Zimmerman tried to auction off the gun he had used in the shooting.

He called the the weapon an American firearm icon and said the money from the sale would got to combating violence against police by the Black Lives Matter movement.

The gun was removed from the auction site gunbroker.com the next day.

Martin, who was African American, was in a convenience store buying sweets and a canned drink on February 26, 2012.

After he had left the store he walked through a neighbourhood in Florida that was notorious for robberies.

Zimmerman spotted him and called the police to report him for suspicious behaviour.

Moments later the pairhad a physical altercation and Martin was shot in the chest.

Zimmerman, who was injured in the scrap, was not charged at the time of the shooting by Sanford Police.

They said there was no evidence to refute his claim of self-defence.

National media then covered the killing and Zimmerman was subsequently charged and tried over Martin's death.

Zimmerman went on trial charged with second-degree murder over the shooting of 17-year-old Martin.

The State claimed Zimmerman profiled Martin before confronting him and shooting him in the chest.

The State's case was that Martin was not committing a crime at the time.

Zimmerman claimed in his trial that he shot Martin in self defence.

After sixteen hours of deliberation over the course of two days, Zimmerman was found not guilty on all counts by a six-person jury.

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Why did George Zimmerman shoot Trayvon Martin and what happened afterwards? - The Sun

When Bill Binney, former NSA analyst and head of the anti-terror ThinThread metadata program sits in front of you and says he is not afraid of the government, you have to admire him. A wheel-chair-bound U.S. serviceman who rose in the ranks of intelligence to work in top-secret NSA programs, Binney created ThinThread prior to September 11, 2001, and says it mathematically broke down all phone communications anywhere in the world without any infringement on Constitutional rights. Identities were protected, except in suspected terrorism cases, and the program was self-running. More important, it worked.

In A Good American, the new documentary from executive producer Oliver Stone and director Friedrich Moser, audiences are taken on a tense and frightening ride through Binney and his colleagues experience developing and deploying ThinThread in tests, only to see its funding pulled just weeks before 9/11 in favor of an expensive and ineffective but job-creating program called TrailBlazer, which the NSA preferred. Binney contends that ThinThread would have identified the terrorists who planned and executed the 9/11 terror attacks, thereby preventing them from occurring. Understandably, he remains disappointed and angry about this, all these years later.

The docu-thriller is a candid portrait of how exploding information in the digital age found government agencies both behind the technology of terrorism and struggling to keep current. When Binney and his small team developed ThinThread, it was an effort to help the NSA be attentive to the code-breaking needs of the modern era. ThinThread represented a home run for intelligence: Itwas highly effective at sorting data and protecting privacy, two huge challenges of working with large amounts of small bits of information. But when ThinThreads plug was pulled, Binney and his team challenged their NSA bosses, and in the process found themselves at odds with the U.S. government and in a complex web of lies and corruption. Thus, when Binney said he remains unafraid of possible repercussions or retaliation tied to the films thesis, its not hard to believe. What else can they do to me? he asks. Theyve already tried everything to stop me.

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WATCH: The real beautiful mind belongs to Bill Binney, NSA whistleblower and metadata czar - Salon

Richard Ledgett, deputy director of the National Security Agency, has announced he will retire this spring, the agency confirmed to CyberScoop Friday.

Ledgett, 59, has been deputy director the agencys top civilian since January 2014, when he succeeded Chris Inglis. Prior to that, according to his official biography,He led the NSA Media Leaks Task Force responsible for integrating and overseeing the totality of NSAs efforts surrounding the Ed Snowden megaleaks.

Ledgett joined the NSAin 1988 and and rose to be, during 2012-13, director of the agencysThreat Operations Center, the famed NTOC. Before that, he served a a stint 2010-12 in various posts in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, including being the the first national intelligence manager for cyber.

He is a recipient of the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal and was for a time an instructor andand course developer at the National Cryptologic School.

It has been anticipated that he would retire in 2017 and he decided the time is right this spring after nearly 40 years of service to the nation, the agency said in an emailed statement.

Last year, Ledgett presented a gloomy picture of the connected future, warning about the dangers of the Internet of Things. Hetoldthe U.S. Chamber of Commerces 5th Annual Cybersecurity Summit that theconnection to our networks of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, ofinternet-connecteddevices that come from multiple vendors and havediffering software and hardware upgrade paths without a coherent security plan means that there are vulnerabilities[created]in those networks.

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NSA's No. 2, its top civilian, will retire shortly - Cyberscoop - CyberScoop