Hacker group rewriting Tumblr pages into a racist, homophobic screed

Some Tumblr users are seeing their pages replaced with several dozen duplicate posts from a known hacker group, warning that deleting said message will delete the Tumblr page in question (it's unclear if this is actually true, but seems to be false in our testing). Tumblr confirmed the ongoing issue to us this morning, and warned users who've seen the message to "please log out of all browsers that may be using Tumblr," as that's one way the "viral post" is being spread. The message from the group is aimed at the wide world of "bloggers," and insists Tumblr users should take their own lives.

Tumblr says its team is "working to resolve the issue as swiftly as possible," though there is no timeline for when it'll be fixed. In the meantime, we suggest changing your Tumblr password (though there's no indication that passwords were necessarily taken, or any other personal information) and staying away from the site until the all clear is given. Thus far, it doesn't seem that any previously written posts have been deleted, but simply pushed dramatically far down the timeline by a deluge of duplicate posts. We'll update this post as we learn more.

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Stevie Nicks On Fleetwood Mac's Reunion Tour, Rihanna, Kanye West & Her Early Years In Music

Between producing and recording music with Fleetwood Mac and relentlessly touring her own albums, Stevie Nicks is pretty busy. So busy, in fact, that her bandmates publicly expressed their frustration when she told them she wasn't going to tour as Fleetwood Mac last year. She had other priorities, namely supporting her latest and "favorite solo album," "In Your Dreams."

But this is Stevie Nicks, so even prickly bandmate and former lover Lindsey Buckingham agreed to wait. Nicks has kept her word: After a three-year break, Fleetwood Mac is heading on a 35-city tour that starts April 4th (tickets go on sale Dec. 7).jo

HuffPost Entertainment called Nicks to speak to her about the tour, but the genial singer was eager to chat about pretty much anything, up to and including: her advice for Rihanna, her concerns about the future of the music industry and a special letter to Kanye West she wrote but never sent.

At what point did you decide to strike up the band again?
They wanted to go out last year and I still felt that my record "In Your Dreams," because of the state of the music business, needed another year. So I put my foot down and said no. And I said no not just because of how I felt about my favorite solo record, but because I felt that, in my opinion, Fleetwood Mac should be off the road for three years because then when we come together it's an event because you didn't just see us last year or just see us the year before. So you know there's all these big ticket bands that go out and who are you going to choose if you just saw us last year? Again, in my opinion, and what our managers have always felt was that staying out of the spotlight for three years is a good number. Three is a good number. So we finished in November 2009 and we are starting in January 2013. It's perfect. I think it's perfect, harmonic convergence of exactly when we should be doing this. I think that everybody was not really believing me last year. But I think that now that we're here, I think that everybody is going like 'right on Stevie, you were right.'

But you think at some point in the last year or so, they were doubting whether you would actually come back?
Oh no. I think they just wanted to do it last year. And I said no. I'm going to go out and tour all summer into the winter with "In Your Dreams" because I have to. I just feel that I have to. And if I didn't, if I'd put that to bed before I thought that I had finished it, I would be very unhappy and very unworkable. So you don't really want me to stop working on this album that I really really love so much and go out a year before I think we should go out. And you know, everybody, they listen. They hear me.

Is it a big transition for you to go from touring a solo album to 35 dates with the band?
It's very different. You know, my solo career is more like an intimate party at your house. And Fleetwood Mac is like a big huge party at the Staple Center. It's just different. It's bigger. It's grander. Like a seven-seater private jet and a 738, you know, it's just what it is and what it always has been. So for me, its been great because, you know, starting in 1981 with Bella Donna, I was able to go back and forth. And both worlds are so different that it really does feel like you're living two different lives. And it's a lot of fun. And I'm one of those persons that gets bored anyway, so doing it this way, it's never a boring moment in my life because I'm always involved in something that I love and then I'm getting ready to be involved with something else that I love when this thing that I love comes to an end.

So at this point there isn't any sort of tension or awkwardness. Everyone's all sort of on the same page?
Everybody is very good right now. I spent some time up at Lindsey's house two weeks ago and we worked on some music. Most of the time we just spent talking about our many stories that we have to tell since 1968, really '66 when we first met. So we spent like 80 percent of our time talking and 20 percent of our time working on some music. And it was really great and he's in a really good place. And he and I are in a really good place, so it's never about Mick and John being in a good place. They're always in a good place. They're happy guys. It's always the drama queens, me and Lindsey. So the drama queens have really calmed down and let a little bit of that drama go and tried to walk down the road of how lucky we are. And how lucky we are to still be friends and how lucky we are to still be able to sing great together. And that what we started as Buckingham Nicks in 1971, when we moved to Los Angeles, has brought us all the way to this place. And that we should drop the drama and try to really enjoy this because we worked very hard to get here.

It's interesting that you believe in space or limiting exposure, when, say, some artists like Rihanna put out an album every year and tour constantly. Do you think that may be because today's pop music is more disposable?
Well, it's very different. And I think that all of the new artists would love it if it was the way it used to be. Let's use Rihanna as an example because I always say it is so wild that her name is Robyn and you know my best friend's name was Robin. So I saw her on David Letterman many years ago, and she did a live performance of "Shut Up And Drive" and I said to several different people that this girl could start a rock band. She really could be a rock singer. She could front a really great rock-n-roll band and she should. And of course that didn't happen, and she became a really big star, but she would probably be happier had she actually done something like that because then she could have had Rihanna with a great band. And then she could have been a rock star and she could have gone to her solo Rihanna and been a pop star. She could have done both like I do. And of course, since we're not friends and I don't know her, I wasn't able to say that to her but I did say it to a lot of other people. It's a heck of a lot more fun.

What other younger acts do you find interesting?
You know, I think of somebody like Beyonce and I think when she broke up Destiny's Child I thought, "that's not a good idea." Because you should never break up your band. Because your band may come in very handy to you down the road. Because if you don't verbally break it up, then you're not making a comeback. You are just going back with your band. It's like with Gwen Stefani and No Doubt, she never breaks up No Doubt, she just goes and does her crazy Gwen thing and then she comes back and becomes a real rock-n-roll singer with her real rock-n-roll band. So that was very very smart, I think. Because then you're being able to change all the time. And really, if you spend three years doing your thing and then, you know, two years doing your rock thing, and then you have a baby and then you do two years of your thing -- it's like you're always on the move doing something new which keeps you young, keeps you energized, keeps that youthful spark happening. And so in many ways I feel very, very sorry for this generation of kids because I think some of them are really really good. You know, I'm walking around and I can't stop singing "Call Me Maybe" even though it's actually like not even a single anymore. But I love it. And I'm hoping that that little girl, because she is really good and I think she wrote that song, she's really good. So maybe she should get a band. And she should practice, you know. And she should play gigs. She should work on it. But the problem is today, you know, even if you do that and you have a huge song like that. And even if you come up with two or three more huge songs. It' going to be very hard to follow that up. And you really do have to get out there and play. And if you don't, you're just going to be a recording artist and just recording artists never have staying power. You have to go do some shows at some point.

Is there something that was more difficult in the late '60s and '70s than it is now?
SN: Well I think now the problem is selling records. Internet piracy is taking it over. I mean it's taking over books, it's taking over movies, everybody is feeling everything. And the problem with that is, yes, it's great to share things, sure. But there comes a point where if you're a young artist, and you're 22 years old, and you've been playing for three years like Lindsey and I did and doing gigs making fairly good money, considering. And then you get a record deal and put a record out, it does OK. Well, you make money from that record and you can support yourself. You can pay your rent, you can pay for your car and in the old days you would be signed to a record company and if you made another record and it kind of tanked, if they believed in you, their artist development people would hang onto you and they would help you. They'd give you $10,000 to live on for a year. So it's wonderful to say go out there and play gigs and be determined. But if you're not getting paid very much money, how can you support yourself? So you're going to have to also, like I did, you're going to have to be a waitress and you're going to have to be a cleaning lady and you're going to have to do anything you have to do to make enough money to support you and your band. And so you really can't leave town then if you've got a job. Because when Lindsey and I were doing Buckingham Nicks,they dropped it a couple of months after it went out. And I had to go back to -- I got to stop being a waitress for a few months -- and then I had to go back to being a waitress because there was no money again. But, because we'd had that record, we had a little bit of clout. We were able to get a studio to get us some time for free and kind of like a spec album.

Do you think there has been or will be any turnaround?
It's a conundrum and I wish that somebody could figure out what to do. I wish that albums would be wanted again because I wish people would want 12 songs and not just two. I wish that people could have the fun that we had when we would go and buy an album and lay on the floor and listen to it 50 times. And sing along with the words and just be so touched. Like I would get a Joni Mitchell album and just be like, "Don't talk to me. Don't even call me for three days because I am totally busy, and it's a Godsend this record and I can't even think about anything else right now." And it would just be wonderful. It would be euphoric. And I'm sorry because I don't see that now.

A really cohesive album seems like something that is almost erased from pop, though there is still a strong demand for classic-sounding albums in some areas of rap.
And it kind of erases rock all together. And so that's a downward spiral.

Do you ever hear something on the radio and hear a little bit of yourself in that song? Taylor Swift and Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine cite you as influences.
I do. There's this song that Taylor wrote called "Today Was A Fairy Tale." And I hear that and I absolutely worked with her on the Grammys a couple of years ago and that song, I was actually going to sing a little of it with her, so I learned it. And then we ended up not doing it because she started out with that. But it stayed in my heart forever. And it just reminds me of me in a lot of ways. And with Florence Welch, I don't really know much about her or her music but with that "Shake It Out" song I really like because I felt that song. I was feeling what she was saying when she wrote that. So yes, I do, I do hear the influence.

One of our editors spent some time with Courtney Love, who spent the day showering her Fleetwood Mac videos and talking about how amazing you guys are. And I was recently speaking with somebody who writes songs with Kanye West and he said that Kanye and all their whole group is obsessed with your solo stuff and Fleetwood Mac. And I was just wondering, what do you think explains the cross genre appeal of your work?
I pretty much started out as a songwriter. And I pretty much, from the day I was 15 and a half and my parents let me sign up for a month of classical guitar lessons and the guy decided to go to Spain so he sold my mom and dad his classic Goya guitar and they gave it to me for my sixteenth birthday which is May 26, like 1964, and that is all the lessons I took because he split. And I wrote a song a week later, and I went and said to my mom and dad, "You have to come into my bedroom and sit on my bed, and I'm going to sit and I'm going to play you this song." And they did because my dad's dad was a country singer and he worked his whole life to make it in the country business and never did, but tried. And so they're sitting there and I played this song, and at the end of it I'm totally crying. My whole guitar is wet. And my mom and dad have little tears in their eyes and they said well, "You know what, that's a good song." And I said, "Well, I'm glad you like it, because I'm going to be a songwriter and that's it. That's what I'm doing." And my mom said my dad and she would will support you in that completely as long as you go to school. So you know, if you go up to five years of college, we will support you all the way through that, your college, and we will support you to do your music. Because they saw it in my eyes. They never doubted me for a second. So I said to them, "I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turing them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves." I'm going to write, "Thunder only happens when it's raining, players only love you when they're playing." Isn't that a weird line for a white girl from San Francisco to write? And I'm writing about "players only love you when they're playing" because basically you're only going to have your relationships with music people when you're with them and as soon as you come off the road, they're gone. It's like I almost just had premonition after premonition about what was coming.

But what do you think gives your work a cross-genre appeal?
Why does my music touch artists like Kanye West? I would say, a) I didn't know that but I like him very much and, b) I actually wrote him a letter once after his mom died. I wrote him a three-page letter that was about how I felt about losing his mother and what she must have meant to him and the way that he lost her in such a crazy way. And I never sent it to him because I thought "Oh, be'll just think this is stupid and what does this girl want with me and what is she writing about my mother for.?" And so I never sent it. So I'm very interested and touched by the fact that you say that there is some love from him towards my music and I might just have to type that letter up and send it off now.

But that's what I said at 15 and a half. That I would affect people. And it was going to be universal for me. I was going to reach out to all different kinds of music and I think that's, when you write a poem and you make sure that poem is really what you want to say, then and only then do yo walk to the piano. And then you sit there and you stare at those words and you start to play. And what comes out has got nothing to do with Stevie's solo career or Stevie's Fleetwood Mac. It has everything to do with the feeling I get when my fingers touch those keys and I sing that first sentence. And when you hit that first line that just knocks you back, you know, where you actually go [singing] "women they will come and they will go." You're like, "I got it. And this is it." And then you know. And it may not save the world but people are gonna love it. Because I love it.

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Clinton sees NATO deal on Turkey Patriot missiles

PRAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hopes NATO allies will reach a deal this week on stationing Patriot missiles in Turkey to defend against possible Syrian attacks, senior U.S. officials said.

The 28 NATO allies meet in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Turkey, which has made a formal request to NATO to help it bolster its air defenses, is a big supporter of rebels fighting to oust Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.

It has repeatedly scrambled jets along the countries' joint border and responded in kind when shells from the conflict have landed inside Turkey, underlining fears Syria's 20-month-old revolt could spread to destabilize the region.

"We're all positively considering (the request)," a senior State Department official said, briefing reporters en route to Europe, where Clinton started a regional trip with a stop in Prague.

"(We) are hopeful that NATO will be in a position to respond positively ... and that the three contributing countries that are being considered - the United States, Germany and the Netherlands - will be in a position to also contribute."

The official said he did not expect final details this week on the numbers of missiles that would be deployed, or on where or for how long, as site surveys were still going on.

He also said it would also probably be "at least a matter of weeks" before deployment, as national decisions still had to be made and site surveys completed and agreed.

Russia, which will join the NATO meeting, has been at odds with the alliance over how to end the Syrian conflict. Russia has vetoed U.N. resolutions aimed at pressuring Assad to step down and Moscow's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, is expected to raise concerns over the missile deployment plans.

The State Department official said the deployment would not be part of "an inexorable move towards a no-fly zone" over Syria of the sort NATO mounted to defend anti-government rebels in Libya.

The official also rejected the idea that deployment of Patriots in Turkey would create a de-facto safe haven in Syria's border area with Turkey, as the missiles would be used to defend against planes or missiles that crossed into Turkish airspace.

The possibility of establishing a no-fly zone is expected to be discussed at a meeting of the Friends of Syria group in Marrakech next week.

"We're always prepared - and the Secretary has made that clear - to look at ways in which we can help the people of Syria," the official said. "But ...a no-fly zone is not on the agenda of any NATO talks this week."

France, Britain, Turkey and Gulf Arab states have already recognized a rebel coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. The United States has been more cautious and not offered full recognition, or arms the rebels are seeking.

PAKISTAN TALKS

Clinton will also hold talks in Brussels on Monday with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and its military chief General Ashfaq Kayani.

U.S. officials say she will seek encourage what Washington sees as an improving mood between Pakistan and its neighbor Afghanistan, where U.S.-led forces are seeking to extricate themselves from a long and bloody war.

A second U.S. official pointed to better signs since Washington's ties with Islamabad hit a low in 2011 after U.S. forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden while he was hiding in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.

He noted exchanges of high-level visits between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where NATO still has a large multi-national force that is due to end its combat operations in 2014, and Pakistan's release of Taliban prisoners as requested by the Afghans to help smooth the way for peace talks with the Islamists.

"I think the Pakistanis are actually pressing forward (on improving relations) because, like a lot of people in the region, they recognize that 2014 is not so far away," he said.

As well as discussions on security, the United States had made efforts to expand the economic relationship with Pakistan and this was an issue expected to come up in Monday's talks.

(Reporting by David Brunnstrom; Editing by John Stonestreet)

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UK lawmakers call for tax crackdown on multinationals

LONDON (Reuters) - A committee of UK lawmakers has called on government to crack down on multinational companies that make substantial sales in Britain but pay little tax here, echoing demands from leaders across Europe for measures to tackle corporate tax avoidance.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said on Monday the government should set down rules limiting inter-company transactions that reduce companies' tax bills, push for more transparency in company reporting on tax and work with other countries to limit profit-shifting across borders.

"Global companies with huge operations in the UK generating significant amounts of income are getting away with paying little or no corporation tax here. This is outrageous and an insult to British businesses and individuals who pay their fair share," said Margaret Hodge, who chairs the PAC.

The committee, which is charged with monitoring government financial affairs, also criticized the UK taxman, Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs' (HMRC), for being "too passive" with big companies.

"Lenient treatment is given to big corporations, of which almost half have a head office overseas," the PAC said in its report on HMRC's annual accounts.

Last month the PAC grilled executives from Starbucks , Google and Amazon over why they paid little tax in the UK while taking in billions of pounds in revenues.

The committee said it found the evidence it received was "unconvincing, and in some cases evasive".

Starbucks said it had always complied with UK tax law but revealed on Sunday that, in response to the public outcry around its tax arrangements, it was looking at changing these.

Amazon said it complied with the tax rules, but declined to comment on the committee's findings. Google declined to comment.

The recent UK focus on tax avoidance follows a Reuters investigation into Starbucks that showed it paid no UK corporation tax in the past three years and had told investors it was profitable while reporting big losses to the UK taxman.

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With governments across Europe running big budget deficits due to the financial crisis and global economic slowdown, tax avoidance has moved to the top of the political agenda.

Tax campaigners and groups opposed to austerity measures have pushed the UK government to lean more heavily on big businesses to close the budget gap.

However, even some big UK businesses are taking exception to the way some of their rivals paying much lower tax rates.

In recent weeks, senior executives from department store and grocery chain John Lewis and from WM Morrison Supermarkets have called for a level playing field on tax between domestic businesses and multinational rivals such as Amazon.

Amazon pays little income tax in the UK because it channels UK sales through Luxembourg, which offers some of the lowest effective tax rates in Europe.

The committee acknowledged such concerns.

"We are concerned that multinationals have an unfair competitive advantage over British businesses which have no choice but to pay their corporation tax," the PAC report said.

The French government said last month that it was discussing new measures to tax internet companies such as Amazon and Google, which minimizes its tax bill by booking sales through an Irish subsidiary.

British Finance Minister George Osborne announced last month that he had teamed up with his German counterpart to lead a push in the Group of 20 economic powers to make multinational companies pay their "fair share" of taxes.

However, in a separate report released on Monday, charity War on Want said Osborne's plans to enact a new anti-tax avoidance law next year would have no impact in reducing the kinds of tax reduction techniques employed by Amazon, Google and Starbucks.

Unions and tax campaigners have already criticized the planned General Anti-Abuse Rule for being too narrowly targeted.

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Year in Review: Attack in Libya

Tragedy overseas hit close to home on Sept. 11, when four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed in a rocket attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Initial reports said the slain embassy staffers were trying to flee the consulate building that was under assault by a mob of protesters apparently angry over the "Innocence of Muslims", a film trailer that mocked the Prophet Muhammad. But evidence pointed to a planned strike by an organized group that exploited, or even organized, the demonstrations.

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