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    Medical workers try to cope with the consequences of the #AssadPutin terror attacks on #Talbisah this morning.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urGti6jnlNQ#

    New #AssadPutin air strikes on #Houla in #Homs province.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDM-...ure=youtu.be#…

    Also #Irbin, east of #Damascus, was hit b several air strikes this morning.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9DXhuraPmw#…

    But not #Aleppo so no problem ...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2qpqKPQZ78#…

    Intense #AssadPutin air strikes on #Talbisah, #Rastan and #Houla since the morning.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGn_pAQXO4M#…

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister 1h
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    Still waiting for 1 person - just 1! - to present an alternative policy on #Syria to status quo, which clearly isn't working.

    I'm waiting.
    Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister
    #pt: Critique all you want, but pushing the current track is illogical & offering nothing but critique is academically immature.


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    MFA Russia #
    ‏@mfa_russia
    #Ryabkov: Seems like no other issues worry US administration, except for goal to fully destroy relations with Russia
    http://sptnkne.ws/c5c6

    WHAT is actually simply amazing is the total lack of a Russian admission that they had anything to do with anything at all simply forgetting their military annexation of Crimea, their military invasion of eastern Ukraine and their deliberate killing of civilians in Syria which are war crimes, their support for the use of CWs, starvation and genocide....TOTALLY and APPARATENTLY never ever happening...

    Moscow will find a way to respond to possible introduction of new sanctions by the United States against Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Saturday.MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Friday, White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said that the United States and its partners would continue to discuss economic sanctions against Russia over the situation in Syria.

    “In case of the extension of US sanctions lists amid mostly senseless and unreasonable reasons – we will find a way to respond so that the balance will change, and it is not going to be for the US benefit,” Ryabkov told RIA Novosti. Ryabkov added also that it seems like the United States wants to fully destroy bilateral relations with Russia by making such statements. “It seems like no other issues worry the US administration, except for the goal to fully destroy relations with Russia, so that many years would be needed then to restore them,” Ryabkov said. The West blames Moscow and Damascus over alleged bombings of civilian population and armed opposition groups in Syria. Russia and the Syrian government insist that they only strike terrorist positions, while blaming the United States of their inability to differentiate between so-called "moderate opposition" and terrorists.
    NOTE: Why is it so hard for the Russian intelligence services to figure out who is who?
    Problem with this argument is that to win it they need to force the US to begin "destroying" relations. That requires much more insanity
    WHY is it that the Obama WH has not called the UNSC into session and per video footage clearly stated to the UNSC and to the world that the Russian AF has only bombed IS on roughly and that is roughly 4% out of all their air strikes AND the rest is dropped on the anti Assad forces WHICH is not JFS and or IS...WHICH is what Putin and his FM clearly stated in front of the UNGA was their intended overall goal....

    INSTEAD just silence...utter and complete silence..as if he is just running out the clock and attempting to tie the hands of the next incoming US President....
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    Arrest of Russian accused of hacking @LinkedIn @Dropbox prompts standoff between Kremlin and Washington. My report:
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/wo...ces-fsxwdrgpn#

    IMHO this is the exact reason for the last major internet attack...while it appears Russians and Chinese were behind it...the Russian FSB has lost one of their best and brightest in this business and it hurt and hurt badly...and they are afraid of what he will say when he gets to the US...IMHO he will not make it alive....

    The current problem that we are having in the internet security world is the heavy use f criminal groups as a illegal cutout between state sponsors such as the Russians and Chinese in this particular case....an average company no longer knows if it is dealing with a Russian state sponsored hack and or a Russian mob group....


    In some aspects therein lies the beauty behind the Russian non linear warfare...

    http://krebsonsecurity.com/

    A massive and sustained Internet attack that has caused outages and network congestion#today for a large number of Web sites was launched with the help of hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, such as CCTV video#cameras and digital video recorders, new data suggests.
    Earlier today cyber criminals began training their attack cannons on Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company that provides critical technology services to some of the Internet’s top destinations. The attack began creating problems for Internet users reaching an array of sites, including Twitter, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit, Spotify and Netflix.

    A depiction of the outages caused by today’s attacks on Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company. Source: Downdetector.com.
    At first, it was unclear who or what was behind the attack on Dyn.#But over the past few hours, at least one computer security firm has#come out saying the attack involved Mirai, the same malware strain that was used in the record 620 Gpbs attack on my site last month. At the end September 2016, the hacker responsible for creating the Mirai malware released the source code for it, effectively letting anyone build their own attack army using Mirai.

    Mirai scours the Web for IoT devices protected by little more than factory-default usernames and passwords, and then enlists the devices in attacks that hurl junk traffic at an online target until it can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors or users.
    According to researchers at security firm Flashpoint, today’s attack was launched at least in part by a Mirai-based botnet. Allison Nixon, director of research at Flashpoint, said the botnet used in today’s ongoing attack is built on the backs of hacked IoT devices — mainly compromised digital video recorders (DVRs) and IP cameras made by a Chinese hi-tech company called#XiongMai Technologies. The components that#XiongMai makes#are sold downstream to vendors who then use it in their own products.

    “It’s remarkable that virtually an entire company’s product line has just been turned into a botnet that is now attacking the United States,” Nixon said, noting that Flashpoint hasn’t ruled out the possibility of multiple botnets being involved in the attack on Dyn.

    “At least one Mirai [control server] issued an attack command to hit Dyn,” Nixon said. “Some people are theorizing that there were multiple botnets involved here. What we can say is that we’ve seen a Mirai botnet participating in the attack.”

    As I noted earlier this month in#Europe to Push New Security Rules Amid IoT Mess, many of these products from XiongMai and other makers of inexpensive, mass-produced IoT devices are essentially unfixable, and will remain a danger to others unless and until they are completely unplugged from the Internet.


    Earlier this month a hacker released the source code for Mirai, a malware strain that was used to launch a historically large 620 Gbps denial-of-service attack against this site in September. That attack came in apparent retribution for a story#here#which directly#preceded#the arrest of two Israeli men for allegedly running#an online attack for hire service called vDOS. Turns out, the site where the Mirai source code was leaked had some very interesting things in common with the place vDOS called home.

    The domain name where the Mirai source code was originally placed for download —#santasbigcandycane[dot]cx — is registered at the same domain name registrar that was used to register the now-defunct DDoS-for-hire service vdos-s[dot]com.

    BTW there is an ever growing amount of linkage between Russian hackers inside Russia and to former and or active Russian citizens residing in Israel.....

    NOTE: there is some evidence that out of the released code for Mirari there is now in the wild a second new version which is the standard evolution of a released malware...
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister
    #pt: Critique all you want, but pushing the current track is illogical & offering nothing but critique is academically immature.

    This is what Charles Lister is talking about....a lot of chatter and articles but nothing substantial worth reading...and it all basically follows the spin out of the Obama WH that nothing can be done....

    The Perplexing Problems of Solving Syria
    Steven Cook
    October 17, 2016
    The calls for Washington to do more are getting louder, but no feasible plan is in sight.
    http://warontherocks.com/2016/10/the...solving-syria/

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    Intense fighting against regime around #Abtaa town in
    southern #Syria continues
    https://youtu.be/8jcL7YfUQPE

    Syria #Homs Residents of #Rastan town on the run after regime air strike attack
    https://youtu.be/S83ieOM1Wo4

    MORE EVIDENCE that US Kurdish proxy is being supported by Assad and the US splits hairs and states these Kurds in this YPG are not vetted US proxy BUT WAIT...the same exact YPG/PKK organization ......?????

    Syria #Assad forces shelling #EuphratesShield areas around Marea town in northern #Aleppo to support #YPG

    ProAssad commenter posted that cannot be possible.....
    Maskan - Marea 10km
    M-46 range up to 30km
    D-30 range 15-20km

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    Promise the last one of these memes.......

    Astronaut photographs #Russia's aircraft carrier #AdmiralKuznetsov from #space
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Promise the last one of these memes.......

    Astronaut photographs #Russia's aircraft carrier #AdmiralKuznetsov from #space
    BUT WAIT is this really as Russian flagged naval vessel and or a Syrian flagged naval vessel....this is strange...

    The Syrian Arab Republic flag at Admiral Kuznetsov's main mast. Via
    https://vk.com/milinfolive

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    Russia's gov't-sponsored Vesti claims that "lying #NATO can't be trusted," as it fights #Russia in #Syria & interferes w/ its war on terror.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Russia's gov't-sponsored Vesti claims that "lying #NATO can't be trusted," as it fights #Russia in #Syria & interferes w/ its war on terror.
    Another Sunday Vesti "vodka moment"....is now claiming US election is rigged against Trump JUST because the US will not allow Russian voting observers...BUT the last time I checked not a single US citizen observed the actual fraud (literally stuffing ballots into empty voting boxes) being recorded live via Russian CCTV cameras during their recent elections....



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    One of the great benefits of living in mother nature in Berlin/Brandenburg....first it was the stork migration...then the 60,000 plus crane migration.....NOW it is the 100.000 plus goose migration for the last three days and for some strange goose built in navigation system they take a descending low right hand turn directly over our hill into the bird sanctuary and then an ascending right hand turn during their take off again right over our hill .... somehow I have to get taken off their navigation system software.....

    Mother nature is great but ever hear the noise generated by 100,000 plus geese who are coming and going...and are telling each other just how great the migration has been.......???? And these guys seem to only travel in the early morning and early to late afternoons....

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    Aleppo: Killed pro-#Assad forces in #Salah_Aldien District of #Aleppo City today. Totally failed regime attack on Aleppo....

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    Aleppo: #YPG militias who were killed by rebels and Turkish army in Northern #Aleppo yesterday.

    This is the same exact YPG/PKK that the US claims is not the same YPG/PKK Kurdish proxy they support...talk about splitting hairs.....

    WHY is the Obama WH, CENTCOM and even DoD running from this YPG/PKK...BECAUSE they are getting great support from Assad artillery and Russian CAS from Putin..AND fighting against FSA NOT against IS and IS is even supporting them.
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    Reports that Turks provided artillery support to KDP Pesh near Bashiqa

    Learn something every day:
    #IS's attack on #Kirkuk was "basically related with #Turkey's plan on Mosul province".
    http://bit.ly/2ekIwjd

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    A really, really ,really Russian vodka moment as Assad does not even have the manpower to recapture the entire country especially with NOW Turkey sitting inside it backing FSA...

    Putin's spokesman: All #Syrian territory must be "liberated" and demands for Assad's departure are "thoughtless"


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...7017&tid=ss_tw

    Kremlin: demands for Assad’s departure “thoughtless”

    MOSCOW — The entire territory of Syria must be “liberated,” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said in remarks televised Saturday, dismissing demands for Syrian President Bashar Assad’s departure as “thoughtless.”
    The Russian statement came as intense clashes were reported in northern Syria between Turkish troops and Turkey-backed opposition fighters with Kurdish-led forces. The Syrian army command condemned the fresh offensive by Turkish troops inside Syria, describing it as “an occupation that will be dealt with by all available means.”

    Continued.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Arrest of Russian accused of hacking @LinkedIn @Dropbox prompts standoff between Kremlin and Washington. My report:
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/wo...ces-fsxwdrgpn#

    IMHO this is the exact reason for the last major internet attack...while it appears Russians and Chinese were behind it...the Russian FSB has lost one of their best and brightest in this business and it hurt and hurt badly...and they are afraid of what he will say when he gets to the US...IMHO he will not make it alive....

    The current problem that we are having in the internet security world is the heavy use f criminal groups as a illegal cutout between state sponsors such as the Russians and Chinese in this particular case....an average company no longer knows if it is dealing with a Russian state sponsored hack and or a Russian mob group....


    In some aspects therein lies the beauty behind the Russian non linear warfare...

    http://krebsonsecurity.com/




    BTW there is an ever growing amount of linkage between Russian hackers inside Russia and to former and or active Russian citizens residing in Israel.....

    NOTE: there is some evidence that out of the released code for Mirari there is now in the wild a second new version which is the standard evolution of a released malware...
    For those that do not understand this...this is MASSIVE and the ability to wield this like a hammer is massive as well...this is not good at all.

    Dyn: We observed 10s of millions of discrete IP addresses tied to the Mirai botnet that were part of the attack
    .
    http://hub.dyn.com/static/hub.dyn.co...s-attack.html#

    This basically means that whoever is behind this can at will bring down the internet anytime, anyplace and at their will and there is not much that can be done to stop it....

    WHILE the Obama WH still is deciding it might be important and or not to respond to Russian cyber warfare....someone has responded and the Russians will understand....

    American vigilante hacker sends Russia a warning
    http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/22/tech...ed/index.html#
    “Ex-FBI agents have called him ‘the Batman of the internet"

    Russians got the message.....
    MFA Press Secretary responds to Jester's attack, saying he targeted an old, defunct site. Also said the Jester is an agent of the US, etc.
    https://twitter.com/tass_agency/stat...1535464632322#

    Typical Russian info warfare..site was not old and defunct...it was active and new..AND he definitely does not work for the US as he is being hunted by the US.
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    Obama may have rushed things to get his "Dec victory"....for his legacy....

    Kurdish reporter about #Mosul: "It took us 2 days to finish 50 #ISIS fighters in #Kirkuk. We lost 80 forces. Many will die in #Mosul."


    In theory at that rate it will be taking a long number of months to finally clear Mosul...and the death rate will be high....AND Raqqa?????

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    FSA: Northern rural #Hama
    Free Syrian Army target group of regime militia with artillery who were hitting local civilians in Deir Mehruda


    FSA || #Hama
    Free Syrian Army forces paving the way with artillery targeting regime militia trying to advance towards Souran

    Free Syrian Army forces against the regime on Mahjoura frontlines in #Dael #Daraa province:
    https://youtu.be/uL4puhzvPMA#

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    Footage
    Back to #AssadPutin bomb attacks on #Aleppo and its western countryside.
    (Not #ISIS of course!)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WitcYwtptLE#

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    I have been beating up on the total lack of an Obama WH FP on just anything other that the strange drive to allow Iran and Russia hegemony n the entire ME. for the last two full years ...WHY he has done that will be now for the historians to discuss BUT I am afraid they will not be kind for his destruction of 70 years of US FP.

    This article now fully exposes the simple fact that through countless spins, lies, deflected and misleading agruments and stalls the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH totally ran out the clock in not having to make a decision at all on either eastern Ukraine, Syria, Russian info warfare directed against the US and the US election, and now the Russian cyber war being waged actively against the US almost daily from where I sit....

    WHEN he could have seriously changed the events in Syria in 2012...he chocked and did nothing, WHEN he could have again changed events with his "red line...he basically chocked and when he could have changed the events of war crimes, starvation and genocide he chocked badly and is now seen as being just as complicit in war crimes, starvation and genocide as is Putin.......

    THE core question that seriously needs to be asked is why would a sitting Us President actually support and direct a US FP policy that enabled the rise of Russia and the decline of the US in the realm of global FP AND WHY is he so dead set on tying the hands of the incoming President to that FP????

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...ns-to-send-hea...

    White House skepticism stalls plan to boost CIA-backed rebels in Syria
    Officials said there are growing doubts about what the fighters can achieve because of Russia’s intervention, and President Obama now seems inclined to leave the fate of the CIA program, which has been the centerpiece of U.S. strategy, up to the next occupant of the White House.

    Obama/Rhodes/Kerry literally ran out the clock and when it is all said and done with the same style of Russian info war spin/stall/lie/deflect used in the standard Russian propaganda against in this case his own civil society.....WHY is that?

    HECK the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH cannot even support their own CIA????

    AND BTW ably supported by Kerry's countless wasted meetings and talks with the Russians....
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