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Hello!  It's November 29, and we're tracking today's top stories: U.S. military contractors built massive censorship industrial complex, Turkey freezes assets of 82 entities, new revelations in Cheney's Trump book, Treasury sanctions DPRK crypto mixer, and much more...

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🎯 CTIL Files #1: U.S. Military Contractors Created Sweeping Plan For Global Censorship In 2018. Whistleblower documents show the birth of the Censorship Industrial Complex. Public 

Top Stories

🌎 Turkey freezes assets of 82 organizations, people for alleged PKK ties. The list included three organizations from Germany and another three from Switzerland, both countries that are home to a large Kurdish diaspora. Reuters

🌎 ‘The Things We Do for the Orange Jesus’: Stunning Insider Excerpts from Liz Cheney’s New Book CNN

🌎 Treasury Sanctions Mixer Used by the DPRK to Launder Stolen Virtual Currency U.S. Treasury

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🌎 The Plot to Kill Kim Jong Un. Financed by the NIS, Seong-il details a scheme to kill the supreme leader with either a biological toxin or polonium. Daily Beast

🌎 North Korean Special Economic Zone Poised for Revival With New Russia Trade. Rason Special Economic Zone appears to be the epicenter of the isolated country's growing cooperation with Russia. Reuters

🌎 Use Google Chrome? Update Your Browser Immediately. Google just patched a zero-day vulnerability that's already being exploited by hackers. PC Mag

🌎 How the Kremlin keeps dodging tough sanctions. While Russia rains down death in Eastern Europe, EU nations are still divided. Politico

🌎 Gold Bars and Tokyo Apartments: How Money Is Flowing Out of China. Chinese families are sending money overseas, a sign of worry about the country’s economic and political future. NYT

🌎 Pro-terrorist cash is funding US higher ed, and taxpayers should be upset about it. College administrations, flush with foreign cash and taxpayer dollars, continue to give Hamas sympathizers free rein. Hill

🌎 U.S. to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela if there’s no action on hostages, elections by Thursday. The White House eased sanctions on the country’s oil sector last month. Miami Herald

🌎 Canada's Scotiabank asks group to end campaign seeking Elbit divestiture. Eko's petition contained misinformation which caused confusion and disturbances including anti-Israel protests at the bank's main branch. Reuters

🌎 Inside the World’s Most Dangerous Gang War. Haiti has experienced a reign of terror as rival outlaw bands battle in the streets of the capital. Rolling Stone

IN THE NEWS

Russia & China

💥 Sanctioned Businessman Denied Financial Ties to Kremlin-Linked Oligarch Roman Abramovich OCCRP

💥 EU ports help sell on over 20% of LNG imports from Russia Oil Price

💥 Sanctioned Russian Tanker in Limbo Shows India’s Oil Dilemma Bloomberg

💥 Netherlands to allow takeover of chip startup Nowi by Chinese-owned Nexperia Reuters

💥 The next front in the tech war with China: Graphite WaPo

💥 Controversial China-linked battery company lobbies up Politico

💥 Russia's SPB Exchange clients to get a third of FX funds back after US sanctions Reuters

💥 Ex-Rosneft Chief Says He Owns Seized Yacht, Seeks To Block Forfeiture Reuters

Iran & Terror

🇮🇷 Germany Joins European Union in Pulling Funding for U.N. Palestinian Aid Group National Review

🇮🇷 Hamas, Hezbollah Now Prefer Tron to Bitcoin CoinDesk

🇮🇷 Federal officials investigating after pro-Iran group allegedly hacked water authority in Pennsylvania CNN

🇮🇷 US used its Section 702 spy tool to disrupt Iran’s weapons program Politico

🇮🇷 Iran finalizes deal to buy Russian fighter jets Reuters

Corruption & Financial Crime

💸 Former drug trafficker offers up island in hope of reduced sentence Guardian

💸 FDIC watchdog planning 'special inquiry' on agency leadership, sexual harassment Reuters

💸 US border overwhelmed by migrant surges in three states NY Post

💸 Trader Pleads Guilty in $47M Insider Trading Scheme Messenger

💸 Corruption case reopened against Argentina's Vice President Fernández AP

Crypto & Cyber

🔐 Coinbase Might Be Forced to Share Your Bitcoin Trading Data With the CFTC Decrypt

🔐 Telegram’s Bans on Extremist Channels Aren't Really Bans Wired

🔐 Bitcoin Group Addressing 'Serious Deficits' in Money Laundering Measures Flagged by German Regulator CoinDesk

🔐 Okta hackers stole data on all customer support users CNBC

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