Reminder Monica Crowley, fmr Trump admin accused of plagiarism & now a foreign agent for pro-Putin oligarch, once wrote this 30 JUN 2016....
Monica Crowley registers as foreign agent for proRussian Ukranian billionaire
http://hill.cm/998dgdV#
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Reminder Monica Crowley, fmr Trump admin accused of plagiarism & now a foreign agent for pro-Putin oligarch, once wrote this 30 JUN 2016....
Monica Crowley registers as foreign agent for proRussian Ukranian billionaire
http://hill.cm/998dgdV#
Extremely important...he was recently arrested in Moscow for spyng for the CIA....AND rumored to have provided details on the DNC hacking that allowed the US IC to state that it was directed by Putin....
NOW we come full circle......
The two Russian intelligence agents were identified as Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin, both of whom work for the FSB, the Russian spy agency successor to the KGB.
Dokuchaev was described as an officer in the FSB Center for Information Security, known as “Center 18”, which is supposed to investigate hacking.
According to the Washington Post, which first reported news of the charges, he began working for the agency to avoid prosecution for credit card fraud.
Dokuchaev was one of two FSB agents arrested in December, according to Russian news agencies, and charged with treason over alleged cooperation with the CIA.
Dmitri Docuhayev aka Forb now named as one suspect of #Yahoo #hack, was arrested for treason in Dec 2016.
https://themoscowtimes.com/news/seco...-hacker-56955#
Roger Stone contacted Russian hacker Guccifer 2.0 at least 16 times during 2016 election, per CBS News. https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2...paign/215681#…
BLUF with today's DoJ reveal: FSB "cybersecurity" is cover for a global online organized crime wave of unprecedented magnitude & severity.
I have been saying this over and over and over and over for the last two years just based on my companies own work....
I see this daily but it takes Yahoo being hacked for people to finally realize the connection....
Yahoo cyber indictment shows Kremlin, hackers working hand-in-hand
http://reut.rs/2nGTsXa
Russia has been a kleptocracy since the collapse of the USSR, if not before, but the Internet now gives them the tools to conduct massive criminal activity globally. Thiw activity can support economic and political goals simultaneously. Once we recognize this as a threat to our national security interests the next question is do we have the tools and policy to deal with it? This is a separate yet related issue tied to their massive disinformation efforts. Again, we don't seem to have the tools or policy to mitigate it's effects, which in short is creating their version of color revolutions, but to create populist governments that are arguably drifting toward fascism. In other words a grand scheme to get more countries aligned with Russia ideologically.
Bill...fully agree ....if you notice my comments early on Crimea and Ukraine.....Russian here I mean Putin...Russian power decision making rests on a four legged stool concept and how Putin balances those legs.......
1. Russian Orthodox Church which has been delivering the ideological drive on what is "Russia"
2. Russian oligarchs who supply the black money cut-outs and deniability
3. Russia intelligence services and related Ministry of Interior police AND lately Russian Private Military Companies (PMCs)
4. Russian mafia which also allows for cut-outs and deniability
Their internet activities also reflect this composition as well...whether from disinformation to propaganda to fake news to criminal activities to now formal Russian state sponsored hacking attacks....
Reference populist movements whether the US with Trump/Bannon and Miller...or Holland with Wilders or France with Le Pen or the AfD here in Germany really attempt to create fear and distrust by those that really are basically afraid of the following three things....
1. fear of getting sick
2. fear of getting old
3. fear of losing a job
COUPLED now with the attempt to blame someone other than themselves...NAMELY immigrants...foreigners...someone other than being white...
Why do I say blame others rather than themselves...because this group of voters seems to rather take cliches...slogans and rhetoric over the truth...meaning years ago they basically stopped being active within the concept of politics..stopped voting and dropped out...until someone comes along and places a verbal voice to their discontentment...and then suddenly they are energized again but in the wrong direction and rely on social media and right wing blogsites and are open to anything resembling a conspiracy theory IE "Deep State"....as it matches their own biases..thus they do not need "facts" or "truth".....
What is amazing to me is the simple fact that those that voted for Trump for whatever reason now are actually seeing that that hated ObamaCare WHICH they are on and or Medicaid for the first time is going to be taken away from them and they say..."but that is not what you said you would do"...or coal miners where Trump promised them their jobs back BUT is then cutting the Obamacare Black Lung medical coverage and disability pensions...
Which ignores the simple fact that yes Trump has lied so many times yet they still believe him because he is not "a politician"...and he is this perceived great "businessman" AND forgot his 650M USD debt load has to be paid by someone and SEVEN bankruptcies....
Actually I have been massively impressed with the Russia disinformation and propaganda campaign waged against the US...just as equally as good as their hacking...AND that is far more dangerous...
They have played the Trump supporters like a violin...just as Wilders has attempted to and as is Le Pen doing right now...here in Germany the AfD has been actually hurt by Trump and Brexit as their polling numbers which lay around 12-14% are now in the 7-8% range and still sinking.
BUT what is really interesting is that the general European public has seen the coming Brexit disaster and Trump front close and personal and has decided that the EU is not so bad after all...
In the Dutch vote....it took Erdogan and a stiff resistance by the government to him to finally wake the Dutch up to the facts that their economy is booming....society as a whole is doing actually well...and unemployment is sinking weekly to low levels not seen since 1975....AND were they willing to balance that against a railing fascist neo Nazi who wanted to throw everything overboard.....with no guarantee that things would be even better.
BTW....I did warn about Trump and his drift towards a US version of "smiling fascism" literally months ago.....
WHY is the US ultra right wing and neo right wing TRYING to out Russia Russia on the disinformation and or propaganda front????
Ann Coulter
Verified account
@AnnCoulter
NEW COLUMN IS POSTED! LET'S MAKE RUSSIA OUR SISTER COUNTRY!
http://bit.ly/2ntEBA5
Russia Today, Sputnik International, and even the RIS SVR media front Katehon are more subtle than this.
Rand Paul is blocking the US Senate from ratifying Montenegro's ascension to NATO
WHY is that and in whose geopolitical sphere is this of high interest...Russia...who has mounted a massive propaganda attack against
Montenegro to keep them out of NATO and EU.....
BUT WAIT....his father Ron Paul who created the Institute for Peace and Prosperity massively verbally supported the right for Russia to militarily annex Crimea WHO then became rather quiet when social media revealed how much money he had been receiving for his Institute out of Russia....
Notice how Rand Paul qualifies his NO...by stating the US budget which Montenegro would not contribute to....
http://www.businessinsider.de/john-m...for-blocking-m...
'The senator from Kentucky is now working for Putin': John McCain slams Rand Paul for blocking Montenegro from joining NATO
Natasha Bertrand, Business Insider
BLUF:......Quote:
Republican Sen. John McCain slammed his GOP colleague, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, on Wednesday after Paul blocked the passage of a treaty that would allow Montenegro to move forward with joining NATO, Defense News'#Joe Gould reported.
McCain warned before the vote that “If there’s objection, you are achieving the objectives of Vladimir Putin...and I do not say that lightly.”
Paul then entered the Senate chamber, voted against the accession protocol,#and exited.#
“The only conclusion you can draw when he walks away is he has no argument to be made,” McCain said after Paul walked out abruptly, according to The Washington Examiner. "The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin."
Russian President Vladimir Putin is staunchly opposed to Montengro's accession to NATO, which he views as a threat to Russian sovereignty.#Albania and Croatia joined the alliance 2009.
"Senator McCain believes that the person who benefits the most from Congress’s failure to ratify Montenegro’s ascension to NATO is Vladimir Putin, whose government has sought to destroy the NATO alliance, erode confidence in America’s commitments to its allies, overthrow the duly-elected government of Montenegro, and undermine democratic institutions throughout Europe," McCain's spokesperson, Julie Tarallo, told Business Insider on Wednesday.
"The overwhelming majority of senators who support this treaty, and certainly the people of Montenegro, deserved an explanation from Senator Paul on the Senate floor as to why he sought to prevent this small, brave country from joining in the defense of the free world," Tarallo added.
For Montenegro to move forward with the accession process, which was approved in May, the treaty has to be ratified by the US Senate by unanimous consent.#Twenty-one#of 28 NATO allies have already#backed Montenegro's accession.
Asked about McCain's comment, Paul stood by his decision to block the treaty and said it would be#"unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt."
"Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the occasional drone strike in Pakistan)," Paul told Business Insider in a statement provided by#his office.#"In addition, the United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in NATO."
McCain promised#Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic in January#that the Senate would ratify the treaty soon, according to Radio Free Europe.
Markovic was the target of a coup#plot, allegedly orchestrated by Russian intelligence agents, to overthrow Montenegro's pro-NATO government and replace it with a Russia-friendly regime, The New York Times reported. The plot was uncovered in November after the pro-Russian mercenary who helped organize it was arrested by Montenegrin police.
AND the Trump WH NSC policy statement on this was what again?....None....
SO again the core question...JUST how many US Congressmen and Senators have open hands and are getting Russian financial support via lobbyists and campaign donations and or donations to their own Institutes OR getting paid speaking engagements and or overseas press tours paid by Russia and are not reporting this...
A rather growing number actually....all Republicans it seems...
Breitbart.com is already attacking the McCain-Montenegro story by intimating McCain is "senile." Expect a fake news onslaught about his health.
HOW is it that a proven white nationalist and sometimes white supremacist blogsite has so much influence inside the Trump WH???
BTW...they have also a journalist seat inside the WH Press Corp....
BLUF..when does Russian propaganda start and Breitbart.com stop and vice versa.....
BTW..it is just not Russians who are illegally monitoring US citizens....
And that slow Trump march towards a US version of "smiling fascism" just keeps on "smiling"....
"US Citizens Now Being Forced To Provide Their Social Media Passwords Upon Return To US."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3...-Return-To-U-S
QUOTE
IN FEB 2017 over 5000 cellphones were searched MORE than the entire 2015....Quote:
The travelers came from across the nation, and were both naturalized citizens and people born and raised on American soil. They traveled by plane and by car at different times through different states. Businessmen, couples, senior citizens, and families with young kids, questioned, searched, and detained for hours when they tried to enter or leave the U.S. None were on terror watchlists. One had a speeding ticket. Some were asked about their religion and their ethnic origins, and had the validity of their U.S. citizenship questioned.
AND a majority were not Muslims.....
BLUF...recently the Director of the Australian CIA was searched and manhandled for over two hours ON a diplomatic passport at LAX.....
SO much for FIVE EYES.....
Is this what we call a double bluff? @RT_com launches a project to sort fact from fiction! You are joking!?
https://www.rt.com/news/380771-rt-fa...news-project/#
Russia Today is "fake news" 24 X 7 X 365...end of story...
"The manufacturing of a psychological atmosphere"
Long read on Russian propaganda tactics makes excellent points.
https://twitter.com/euvsdisinfo/stat...8015636901890#
When one has been truly mislead by propaganda and disinformation....
Trump voter James Walker, 31, from Nashville, says: "This is the first step: showing up and being honest."
There is nothing wrong in admitting one has been mislead...some of the fake news out on the net is actually very well made....even I have problems at times....
It takes personal courage to stand up and admit it...
Deciding who decides which news is fake.
http://buff.ly/2msFdnW
Perfect example of Trump driven propaganda and disinformation..no different from Russian version....
Just so we're all on the same page
Donald J. Trump
Verified account
#@realDonaldTrump 22h
22 hours ago
Does anybody really believe that a reporter, who nobody ever heard of, "went to his mailbox" and found my tax returns? @NBCNews FAKE NEWS!
NOW what is interesting is that social media open source analysis has actually stated his 2005 tax form was leaked deliberately by either Trump and or a close "friend"....
Tell us more, Roger. How would you know about the content of emails that Russia hacked but didn't release?
Here's how Russian hackers allegedly broke into millions of Yahoo accounts without passwords
http://read.bi/2noxQmz
Well worth reading as it is a really standard Russian procedure along with phishing attacks....
NOTE..SWJ had a recent good article on phishing attacks....
Senator @JeanneShaheen introduces bill to investigate Russian propaganda news outlet RT
http://politi.co/2mFYaoM
Europe headed for 'religion wars' despite Wilders' stumble, Turkish minister says
http://reut.rs/2mxiZ5c
"Religious wars" but he did not call for a jihad...
For the purists, "Yakında Avrupa'da din savaşları da başlar, başlayacak." -- the missing word is "jihad" (cihad in Turkish)
The really interesting thing is this type of Turkish rhetoric is actually turning off Turkish citizens living and working in other EU countries as they know it to be simply false...LARGE numbers of dual Turkish/Dutch citizens voted in record numbers for the current Dutch PM...for example.
THE REASON I POINT THIS OUT.....
This is the comment coming from basically a right wing neo Nazi fascist blogsite....that even US Congressman King often quotes in his tweets...as well as Brietbart.co and Infowars...both US based right wing white nationalist blogsites...
Voice_of_Europe
How many warnings do we need???
Turkish minister claims 'holy wars will soon begin in Europe'
NOW count the days until Brietbart.com and Infowars picks this comment up....
DOJ: Not only did FSB (Russia) not arrest internationally wanted hacker Alexi Belan, they recruited him for the Yahoo hacking attack.
Perfect example of Russian disinformation and propaganda....
GRU employed their Italian shill from Difesa, opened fire to mimic Ukraine Army attack to get a staged incident as a spin in foreign media.
Millions of US employee records leaked
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39278637#
On top of the 20M OMB Chinese hacked SF86s and fingerprints...
WOW...53M in total and yet the Trump WH is worried about a "Deep State"...
This text originally appeared in Russian on Colta, a leading Russian platform for comment and discussion.
Well worth the entire read.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-rus...alled-partners
The Kremlin’s so-called “partners”
Alexander Morozov 16 March 2017
For the Kremlin’s friends in the west, the reality of Russia’s actions is finally sinking in.
Quote:
Before Crimea, everyone “cooperated with the Russians”. And until mid-2016, no one knew what to think or do with this history of cooperation. Sanctions hardly made a dent in this “cooperation regime”.
But beginning with the US presidential elections, important changes are taking place — and it’s hard to know what to call them or how to describe them. Externally, we see that people who were supposed to communicate with “the Russians” are losing their positions. And this is accompanied by public scandals. It’s not the case that these people cooperated with some questionable goals in mind, but they’d come into contact with a taboo — zashkvar in Russian criminal slang.
No one doubted the loyalty of US national security adviser Michael Flynn, but he resigned because of his “contacts” with the Russians. A few days ago, the vice-speaker of Lithuania’s parliament resigned. Mindaugas Bastys left because the Lithuanian security services refused him access to secret data. But the list of Russian citizens whom Bastys had contact with over the years doesn’t contain anything particularly shocking — representatives of Russian state corporations in Lithuania, the usual suspicious Russian businessmen and so on.
The recent hack of the email account of hitherto unknown Alexander Usovsky, who was working for the Kremlin in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Balkans, shows that Konstantin Malofeev, an Orthodox Russian businessman known for financing separatists in the Donbas, discussed or in fact conducted operations against elections in Bosnia and Poland.
October 2014: Alexander Usovsky discusses leaking an image of Milorad Dodik, pro-Russian president of Republika Srpska, meeting with Konstantin Malofeev. Source: bellingcat.
Malofeev’s activities are an extreme example of Russia’s openly subversive actions in other states. But when you look at Usovsky’s emails, and you’re aware of the state Russian affairs in Europe, you realise#that Malofeev’s strategy and tactics are no different from the actions of dozens and hundreds of similar actors beyond Russia’s borders. Before Crimea, for those who cooperated with the “Russians”, these activities looked like “supporting Russia’s interests”. Now these people are beginning to figure out what this really meant.
“What have we got ourselves involved in?” they asked themselves — people who’d performed one-off services or participated in “Petersburg Dialogue” (a German-Russian public form), the Valdai Club, the “Dialogue of Civilisations” (another public forum) and the dozens of other programmes where Russian money was involved.
All these political, cultural and media contacts are nothing compared to the scale of cooperation in business
Members of Russian émigré organisations (which refused to work with the “Russian world” programme fairly early on) have told me that, at the start, they were taken in by film director Nikita Mikhalkov’s initial cultural projects. They sincerely supported the director’s appeal to Russians abroad.
But around 2008 these émigré organisations felt that they were beginning to be recruited into an ideological support campaign for the Kremlin. Many people continued travelling to Moscow for émigré congresses, but already as “observers”. They already decided back then that this was the “New Comintern” and it was wrong to accept their grants. Other people continued to accept the money happily, and sailed off together with the Kremlin in the direction of Crimea.
Money talks
But all these political, cultural and media contacts are nothing compared to the scale of cooperation in business.
For more than a decade, millions of people across the world have been involved in networks of “Russian money”. After all, the large-scale capital flow out of Russia, the partial reinvestment of these funds back into the country through offshore structures and into infrastructure outside of Russia (companies, shares, property, yachts and so on) – this is the gigantic money-moving machine of Putin’s corporate state, which is operated by millions of people (solicitors, politicians, parliamentary deputies, cultural professionals, translators and so on).
March 2014, Crimea. CC BY-2.0 Sasha Maksymenko / Flickr. Some rights reserved.
As a result, by the time Crimea happened, the Kremlin had a significant lobby at its disposal. This doesn’t mean that people were actually “bought” (to use the language of anti-corruption). People merely “cooperated” and received certain bonuses for this cooperation. If you once took money from an old friend in your past, then, even if you see it in a critical light now, you’ll still maintain your loyalty to him or her in public. Who would want to start a scandal about the misdeeds of someone who once helped, let’s say, to finance your new home? You’d keep quiet.
The retrospective starts now
In other words, for over a decade — since roughly 2004, after Khodorkovsky’s Yukos company was seized — the Russian economy kept its (hard to measure) foreign networks well-oiled.
This wasn’t about corruption in the narrow sense. Of course, in the west, this was seen as economic interaction with a particular kind of “eastern” economy, where everything is accompanied by “signs of gratitude”, “kickbacks”, exchange of various bonuses and preferences, trips to the sauna, hunting expeditions with helicopters and so on. And this wasn’t criminal activity as such. It was seen as part of the “specifics” of dealing with the country. Russia is far from the only economy that operates this way — i.e. through “partnership”. The world’s largest companies opened offices and factories in Russia. And until recently, this was a privileged economy incorporated into the BRICS system.
Putin used Crimea to draw people who’d been involved in partnership into a one-off mobilisation. The Russian president made it necessary for all these “partners” to define their position
Crimea turned the results of this ten-year-long support into a problem. Obviously, Putin used Crimea to draw people who’d been involved in partnership into a one-off mobilisation. The Russian president made it necessary for all these “partners” to define their position. Putin’s “partners” (he often pronounces the word with irony) are often understood in the diplomatic context. But in reality Putin has other “partners” in mind — those millions of people who have for years sat on Russian contracts, Russian money and other forms of interaction with “the Russians”.
Unreliable partners
Now these “partners” have big problems. And I note sadly that their problems are not due to Crimea (as such), the sanctions or counter-sanctions regimes, nor the ambiguity of past participation in toxic projects with “the Russians”. The problem for them is that Putin does not want to stop.
This community would have sighed with relief if Putin had just “signed over the assets to his name”, i.e. taken Crimea and stopped there. But the extreme ambiguity that characterised 2014-2017 continues to be maintained and even expanded: it wasn’t Putin who shot down MH17, but some people working for Konstantin Malofeev; Putin didn’t murder Boris Nemtsov, it was a few Chechen security officers; it wasn’t Putin who hacked the US Democratic Party’s servers, but some hackers — possibly Russian, possibly not (but from Russian servers); Putin didn’t organise the coup attempt in Montenegro, but some unknown individuals; it wasn’t Putin who organised the campaign to destabilise and destroy Ukraine as a state, but Russian presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev; it was some guy named Alexander Usovsky who organised pro-Russian demonstrations in European states (with cash from patriotic Russian businessmen), not Putin. And so on.#
Now everyone is looking back on this time and asking themselves: who were really “partnering” with? Maybe it was Russian intelligence?
This list is growing by the day. And yet the Kremlin is not distancing itself from any of this with the previous energy so understandable to its so-called “partners”. The Kremlin doesn’t conduct investigations into any of these issues, but an ambiguous game that can be clearly read as “covering” all of its “own people”.
Thus, the previous decade of developing relationships transforms before our eyes into an “invitation to complicity”. Now everyone is looking back on this time and asking themselves: who were really “partnering” with? Maybe it was Russian intelligence? Or maybe from the very beginning this was just a trick to recruit us for dubious lobbying campaign?
Ambiguity rules
This is all scarily new. Everything that’s happening before our eyes regarding the US State Department and pro-Russian politicians in Europe reveals a complex problem — the borders between lobbying, partnership, espionage, propaganda influence and corruption are being washed out.
Thus a situation arises whereby it is impossible to distinguish between real partnership from participation in a campaign to distort “the borders of the permissible”. Just yesterday you were a “Christian Democrat” developing a partnership with the Russian Federation, and today you’re just a silent participant in the degradation of the very norms of European political culture.”
Continued...
Three years ago, I wrote that Putin was in the process of creating a rightwing Comintern. It’s since become known as the “black Comintern”. But now I think that the current situation is not only more complex, but worse. .
Continued....
Moscow opens a new front in the information war against Ukraine in Belarus:
https://informnapalm.org/en/moscow-o...aine-belarus/#
Kremlin Trolls CI
@KremlinTrolls
One of the better twitter sites for the identification of Russian twitter trolls...
https://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Outlaw,
I don't disagree that it is a risk, and while it won't parallel Nazi Germany, it will still present a threat to democracy. However, that will only happen if our judicial and legislative branches fail to check the executive branch.
I find it odd that after two years of attacking Obama, you are now championing him? As for Trump conning blind people to vote for him, that was hardly the case for the majority. Most who voted in that direction wasn't for Trump, but against Clinton, a known liar, and an advocate of failed policies. What is really sad is that the Democrats and Republicans didn't put forth better candidates.
Regardless of America's buyer's remorse, we do have a resilient system, and we could very well suffer through a four year lame duck Presidency, or see Pence take the seat of the irrational behavior continues. The underlying issue is this creates seams that the Russians will pour into like water, then expand like ice to further divide us. This is hardly unique to the U.S., the same is happening in Western Europe. Our current political and economic systems are failing too many people, so it needs to change. The key to the future is who will lead that change? Inexperienced populists who simply seek to dismantle in a reactionary fashion, or gifted leaders with a strategic vision for the 211st Century.
Reference Trump's "wolf" accusations of being wiretapped by former Obama WH....
Russian crime operations....
LONG read but fully worth the time to understand Russian criminal activities and how it costs the Russian GDP....
Russia’s great daylight bank robbery
Solid @bneeditor @bneintellinews piece on B$ bank shenanigans & needed reform
http://www.intellinews.com/long-read...D7BZuE.twitter
Quote:
Russia is in the midst of a massive anti-corruption drive to stamp out institutionalised stealing that has already costs the country some 5% of GDP, but has caused little comment. The robbers have until recently gotten away with their crimes with impunity and many of them are to be found living openly in luxury in London. But the crackdown is gathering momentum and starting to affect the Russian elites. Above all, the campaign is targeting Russia’s deeply corrupt banking sector.
The state has been nervous about closing banks, afraid of sparking a financial crisis. But bank owners have been blithely stealing from their depositors. When the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) finally gets round to shuttering a dodgy bank it typically finds at least a $1bn hole in the balance sheet and the owners long gone. As the first RUB1.4mn ($23,555) of deposits are covered by an insurance scheme the clean-up has already cost the government about $50bn, with approximately 200 more banks to close over the next two years. Last year alone, the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) that is responsible for the reform launched 236 criminal cases against banks and won 25 of them.#
Russia's corporate governance comes in from Caveman era
Reminder that imperialism, kleptocracy & normality co-exist
http://www.intellinews.com/russian-c...A8riMw.twitter
Deeper and deeper and deeper it goes and there were absolutely no Russian contacts....come on get real...
Flynn received payments from Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky and Russian air cargo firm Volga-Dnepr:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-fl...eaming_stream#
Kaspersky itself is a Russian security software company that has often stated it has no ties to the Russian intelligence services BUT two of it's employees (FSB officers) were recently arrested for spying for the CIA....
BUT Kaspersky sits inside Russia????
BUT WAIT...Flynn only recently registered as a foreign agent for his Turkish ties BUT forgot his Russian ties....
EU Mythbusters
✔
@EUvsDisinfo
Pro-Kremlin media use homophobic hate speech to promote negative views of the West:
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/homophobic-ha...n-russian-tv/#
Bill..after two solid years of bashing the lack of any strategic strategy on the part of Obama I have not changed that stance in the least....
Right now the US does not have an effective DoS and or SoS who has been basically sidelined by Bannon/Kushner/Preibus...has now a budget that "deconstructs" using Bannon's on words EPA....FEMA...CG and the list does not end....
When we accept as a public the words from a white nationalist who states he is a Leninist and wants to destroy the "establishment" and then changes that to "deconstruction" we are in serious trouble.
When the majority of Trump voters refuse to accept the evening news or read MSM in favor of an right wing white nationalist/white supremacist echo chamber on social media and the internet then we really are in serious trouble.....
When truth and facts become "alternative facts" we are in serious trouble....
When people applaud when Trump states a blatant lie that a former President illegal wiretapped him and then refuses to apologize and openly admit he basically lied we are in serious trouble....
WHEN one party blocks completely any government movement for eight long years because they did not like a black man winning AND then selling it as being the fault of the other political party then we have a serious problem.....
WHEN we have conspiracy myths ruling over fact and truth then we are in serious trouble....
When a President refuses to accept the simple principle that Russian hackers were hard at work and turns around and then praises that same nation state...then we have a serious problem....
When a President openly states "we will have everyone covered by healthcare and it will be a beautiful thing"...and then the reality is 24M will lose it in 2026 then we are in serious trouble.....
When a President talks about progress BUT really only provides "motion" and sells it as a success with people applauding himl AND no one challenges him on it..we are in serious trouble....
AND especially when a US President deliberately and openly attacks the rule of law...IE the judiciary then we are in serious trouble...
WHEN fewer and fewer Americans actually vote allowing a minority President full and complete control of government we are in serious trouble...minority meaning he got fewer general votes by 3M yet "won"....
WHEN the US President is willing to take the US into a possible trade war that will hurt the US and the global trading nations then we have a serious problem...
YES we are sliding and sliding badly into an interesting form of fascism...one condoned in fact by democracy......
I will stand by that statement...as we will see more of it in the coming months....
Bill when the RP and Trump has been bashing Obamacare for eight long years and that his plan is "beautiful" and then this comment comes from him....he is basically lying to his own voters yet they do not call him out...
Why is that....?
This literally happened...
Tucker Carlson: "The counties who voted for you will do far worse under your plan"
Donald Trump: "Oh, I know..."
BUT then he continues to lie YET no one calls him out...therein lies the problem inside the US...no one steps up and talks truth to power....no one takes any responsibility for anything...
Trump says he got wiretap info from reading about wiretapping in NYT/@BretBaier report (NYT/Baier didn't report Obama had Trump wiretapped)
Another lie.....
Bill..and this is someone acting democratically in the face of the rule of law????
Gov. Mike Huckabee
Verified account
#
@GovMikeHuckabee
Hoping @POTUS tells Hawaii judge what Andrew Jackson told overreaching court-"I'll ignore it and let the court enforce their order."
Volga Dnepr who paid Flynn also happens to be an arms speditioner to hard to reach locations.
Not only that but in 2016 Pentagon cancelled all prior cooperation with Volga Dnepr due to unlawful arms trading. Did Flynn lobby for it?
"Subcontractor activities Counter to US Interests, Support to anti-US Regimes, Weapons Proliferation" << Pentagon's assessment of Volga Dn.
and this company paid 12 k to @GenFlynn? There must be an innocent explanation.
Flynn received 11K from Kaspersky a Russian security software company AT the same time he held a TS/SCI clearance without notifying DoD...
Flynn is paid by subsidiary of cyber-security Kaspersky Labs.
Eugene Kaspersky worked in the KGB.
Trump taps Flynn as NSA, 3 wks. later ...
Favoured #KremlinTroll tactic is to set up fake twitter fights. One plays good cop, the other bad cop.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dai...ain-West.html#
Kremlin Trolls CI @KremlinTrolls
. @IntersectionEN editors were groomed by the Kremlin for government service.
Studied together => got married => setup Intersection
IntersectionEN has been one of the most active Russian fake news aggressive trolling twitter sites....
In the current ongoing Russian cyber war...this is what the current Trump WH has largely forgotten....
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. - Sun Tzu
Reference the Trump attack on the rule of law.....
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But then, at the end of the 29-page dissenting opinion, Bybee, joined by Judges Alex Kozinski, Consuelo M. Callahan, Carlos T. Bea and Sandra S. Ikuta, wrote an unusual aside, saying he wished “to comment on the public discourse that has surrounded these proceedings …” He went on:
Even as I dissent from our decision not to vacate the panel’s flawed opinion, I have the greatest respect for my colleagues. The personal attacks on the distinguished district judge and our colleagues were out of bounds of civic and persuasive discourse — particularly when they came from the parties.
It does no credit to the arguments of the parties to impugn the motives or the competence of the members of this court; ad hominem attacks are not a substitute for effective advocacy. Such personal attacks treat the court as though it were merely a political forum in which bargaining, compromise and even intimidation are acceptable principles. The courts of law must be more than that, or we are not governed by law at all.”
Coming from Bybee, the statement had particular significance. He was head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice under President George W. Bush and signed the so-called “Torture Memos” in 2002 permitting “enhanced interrogation” techniques on detainees.
Another 9th Circuit judge, this one concurring with the majority’s refusal to rehear the case, appeared to be referencing Trump as well. “I am proud to be a part of this court and a judicial system that is independent and courageous,” wrote Judge Stephen Reinhardt, “and that vigorously protects the constitutional rights of all, regardless of the source of any efforts to weaken or diminish them.”
Bill..the last one on this...but read and then tell me we as a country do not have a serious problem on our hands...a President that cannot complete a single coherent sentence....so people might in fact call this dementia in early stages....
So if he is not coherent and not clear and concise how is he even to formulate and express a say...a national cyber FP...????
At least Obama could be clear and concise and carry an intelligent conversation....
Tucker Carlson asks President Trump what he reads.
Trump's answer:
Not clearly known who is behind this....
http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...e-data-dc/amp/
Suspected Hack Attack Snagging Cell Phone Data Across D.C.
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An unusual amount of highly suspicious cellphone activity in the Washington, D.C., region is fueling concerns that a rogue entity is surveying#the communications of numerous individuals, likely including U.S. government officials and foreign diplomats, according to documents viewed by the Washington Free Beacon and conversations with security insiders.
A large spike in suspicious activity on a major U.S. cellular carrier has raised red flags in the Department of Homeland Security and prompted concerns that cellphones in the region are being tracked. Such activity could allow pernicious actors to clone devices and other mobile equipment used by civilians and government insiders, according to information obtained by the Free Beacon.
It remains unclear who is behind the attacks, but the sophistication and amount of time indicates it could be a foreign nation, sources said.
Mass amounts of location data appear to have been siphoned off by a third party who may have control of entire cell phone towers in the area, according to information obtained by the Free Beacon. This information was compiled by a program that monitors cell towers for anomalies#supported by DHS and ESD America and known as ESD Overwatch.
Cell phone information gathered by the program shows major anomalies in the D.C.-area indicating that a third-party is tracking en-masse a large number of cellphones. Such a tactic could be used to clone phones, introduce malware to facilitate spying, and track government phones being used by officials in the area.
"The attack was first seen in D.C. but was later seen on other sensors across the USA," according to one source familiar with the situation. "A sensor located close to the White House and another over near the Pentagon have been part of those that have seen this tracking."
The data gathered by the ESD Overwatch program indicates the U.S. cell carrier has experienced "unlawful access to their network for the purpose of large scale subscriber tracking," according to a report prepared by ESD Overwatch, a contractor working on behalf of DHS, and viewed by the Free Beacon.
Information gathered by the program shows a massive uptick in efforts to identify and track cellphones. The third-party hacker appears to be identifying phones as they connect with local cellphone towers and recording this information.
This method of hacking could permit a malicious actor to track an individual's cellphone and pinpoint phones that may be of importance, such as government entities.
The cellular network involved in the attack is being abused in order to track phones subscribed to the carrier, according to one source familiar with the situation.
DHS's Office of Public Affairs confirmed that the ESD Overwatch program has been operating under a 90-day pilot program that began Jan. 18.#Before the surveillance program was initiated the federal government did not have a method to detect intrusions of the nature seen over the past several months.
The attack on this network is still underway, according to sources monitoring the situation.
An official with ESD Overwatch acknowledged the existence of the DHS program, but would not comment further on the matter.
The issue of cellphone vulnerabilities has been a top concern in Congress, where lawmakers petitioned DHS on Wednesday to outline steps the government is taking to prevent foreign governments from performing the type of attacks observed by Overwatch.
"For several years, cyber security experts have repeatedly warned that U.S. cellular communications networks are vulnerable to surveillance by foreign governments, hackers, and criminals exploiting vulnerabilities in Signaling System 7," which is used by cellular phones and text messaging applications, according to a letter set by Sen. Ron Wyden#(D., Ore.) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D., Calif.).
"U.S. cellular phones can be tracked, tapped, and hacked—by adversaries thousands of miles away—through SS7-enabled surveillance," the lawmakers write. "We are deeply concerned that the security of America’s telecommunications infrastructure is not getting the attention it deserves."
"We suspect that most Americans simply have no idea how easy it is for a relatively sophisticated adversary to track their movements, tap their calls, and hack their smartphones," the lawmakers write.
Concerns continue to mount that the government is not adequately taking steps to secure cellular networks.
The lawmakers request that DHS outline specific steps being taken to insulate networks from attacks and ensure that U.S. cell carriers are doing the same.
Trump's very own spokesperson STILL is maintaining the accusation that the UK has spied on Trump for Obama......
GCHQ on Trump spying claim: "These allegations are complete and utter nonsense".
Never heard intelligence officials so angry.
Just got a msg from an old GCHQ friend. Said the same, just w/a lot of expletives. Had to look a couple of them up.
NOTE...it is truly unusual to have GCHQ comment on anything so we need to fully understand their anger over the constant Trump conspiracy myth statements....
Ivanka Trump HQ
Verified account
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@IvankaTrumpHQ
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A number of really good IT security types have pointed out that this particular Russian app has a clear backdoor that allows someone to track the user worldwide....
Thus a general warning has gone out that virtually any free gaming app or any app created inside Russia has the possibility of a clear backdoor that allows Russian Intelligence Service monitoring...
This has been pointed out to the Ivanka Trump HQ BUT until today silence from her HQs.....
NOTICE Trump has not warned Putin about Russian hacking of US corporations especially say Yahoo...not a single word backing up DoJ/FBI....
Alfa Bank says its servers have been hacked to make it look like it is communicating with Trump Org. Has contacted US law enforcement.
BUT WAIT....
Alfa bank has been connecting to this Trump Tower server for 10 minutes every hour
Ahhh yes... that timeless old chestnut. - 'It wasn't me, I must have been hacked'. LOL
BUT WAIT.....
Russia's Alfa Bank says hackers created the illusion it was in close contact with the Trump Organization:
https://alfabank.ru/press/news/2017/3/17/38162.html#
Amazingly Alfa Bank "only discovered this excuse" after it became known there was far more intensive research on their server conversations with Trump Tower....
Reference the Kaspersky payment to the then retired Flynn who was working with the Trump campaign......
RT jumps up in @GenFlynn's defence ("normal practice"), outraged that Congress "leaked confidential correspondence"
https://www.rt.com/news/381209-flynn...urity-speech/#
BUT WAIT.....Russia Today failed to notice as a lobbyist he had to register as a foreign agent....