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    Now it appears that the raving US white nationalist wing that supported Trump are going wild....this individual was the one that pushed the Russian disinformation campaign around the Assad CWs use under the hashtag #Syrianhoax which was started by Assad and then picked up by Russian FSB and then driven into the US by the individual below which then made it to Breitbart.com and Infowars and YES even FOX News....

    Cernovich is threatening White House with smear stories & they still give him first dibs on scoops and then Eli Lakes second take....

    Cernovich said he'll drop "scoops" that will "destroy marriages, relationships" if Bannon is fired by Trump.
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...d.html#…

    So who needs the alleged sex tapes of Trump mentioned in the Steele Dossier WHEN we have white nationalist willing to destroy their own....with evidently photos...tapes....etc...

    Sex...drugs and rock and roll.....all from the US ultra right...who would have thought that months ago....and then mix in the Russians.....

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    House Democrats call for revoking Kushner’s security clearance
    http://thehill.com/homenews/house/32...Q18zQ.twitter#

    REASON...he basically lied on his SF86 under the Section....Foreign travel and foreign contacts....

    Anyone who knows the SF86 process also knows that if you check this section as YES then you better be prepared to list every single contact...every single business deal...every single piece of property you hold outside of the US....and in his case....it would have taken tens of pages....

    AND if you fail to disclose and they find during the investigation such contacts...one normally does not get a TS/SCI....

    He failed to fully and complete disclose....ask the simple question...WHY?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    They are real..exist deeper than many think at the Spetsnaz/PMU level and have been actually confirmed but Trump and strangely DoD is holding back the info...

    Confirmed also by European intel sources who are watching it as they are part of the NATO effort...
    Sources? More info? Congressional testimony doesn't give much other than to say there's classified intel...

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    Russian black money....Cyprus and corruption all go in one sentence....

    Congressman Investigating Trump Goes to Russia’s Money Laundromat, Cyprus
    http://thebea.st/2pfsGtG

    Cyprus has been the master in flowing Russian black money into EU and onwards as a number of Russian laundering banks are in Cyprus and have been black listed as such....

    Manafort who is being investigated by FBI for his Russian connections had 12 shell companies in Cyprus and flowed his Ukrainian earnings through Cyprus....

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    Some light humor this Easter weekend....

    Trump conspiracy-bots may have uncovered the ancient document that gives secret power to the "Deep State." It's called "The Constitution."

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    Shadow Brokers previously advertised these Windows exploits, with codenames, in January. NSA knew what was coming
    https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/04/1...-these-files/#

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    Twitter has a serious problem—and it’s actually a bigger deal than people realize
    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...ion-campaigns#

    THIs is an extremely serious issue just not on US election meddling but from a criminal activity perspective especially Russian cyber crime gangs...

    Twitter does not want to accept the simple fact that there are 45M uncontrolled and registered accounts in play...they state that the research is wrong....

    IMHO the research is highly accurate and worse of all if tied to the Internet of Things (IoT) it creates one heck of an massive attack machine can be computer linked and controlled....

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    Facebook closed 30,000 fake accounts in France ahead of elections
    http://bit.ly/2oINbyf

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    How many computers are affected on the Internet? @Balgan has identified 1,951,075 Windows 2008 hosts online impacted by ETERNALBLUE...

    If you are just tuning in, TLDR; Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 7, 2008, 8 and 2012 are vulnerable to RCE 0day public exploits/malware.

    Microsoft response that ShadowBrokers exploits were patched in the last month updates - MS17-010 ETERNALBLUE -

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azor View Post
    Sources? More info? Congressional testimony doesn't give much other than to say there's classified intel...
    Will hunt up the German and French links and post them....

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    Churchill said: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

    Luckily, the truth is catching up

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    James Comey: 'People need to be aware of the possibility that what they're reading has been shaped by troll farms.'
    http://apne.ws/2orZtZw

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    EU Mythbusters

    @EUvsDisinfo
    UK's media watchdog warns Russia Today (RT): Content is "materially misleading”, lacks "due impartiality":
    http://euvsdisinfo.eu/inside-rts-wor...ernative-news#

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    Estonia has a very simple counterintelligence policy: it names and shames agents of the Kremlin annually:
    http://thebea.st/2pgQblY

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    Interesting article where Parscale is asked if he's behind Macedonia bots related to an online NBA vote
    http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/1...voting#…

    Pretty amazing that in just a few months, Brad Parscale goes from making a few websites for Trump for $1200 a pop, to suddenly making 20mil

    NOTE: the Macedonia botnet was driven by a Russian owned company paying 1200 USD per month for young English speaking Russians to push proTrump social messaging.....at one time they accounted for 37% of all proTrump social media tweets....
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    The Cyber and Information Space: a new formation in the Bundeswehr
    https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje...on-bundeswehr#

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    Here though is my concern and you see it in my postings here that while suppose to be for Russian activities...we are now seeing a converging and or collusion between Russian disinformation/propaganda and fake news and the US ultra right (white nationalist/white supremacists) and also not least the US left feeding and using each others disinformation/propaganda and fake news...

    BOTH using effectively social media and botnets to carry their narratives into MSM...

    Example:

    If you look intently at a lot of Trump's statements he is actually dog whistling to white supremacists and white nationalists...

    Trump supporters, opponents clash in California park
    http://reut.rs/2oiSSPC

    The demo was organized and led by....
    Damigo, who founded Identity Europa, is a convicted felon who served time for drunkenly pulling a gun on a cab driver he thought was Iraqi.

    Identity Europa appeals to whites not people of color or ethnic backgrounds does it not?

    Nathan Damigo, a California white supremacist, apparently punched a woman in Berkeley. Profile:
    https://www.google.com/amp/www.latim...tory,amp.html#

    REMEMBER the Trump tweet after a major demo clash in Berkeley where a well know white nationalist/supremacist attempted to speak on campus and was forces off campus and he could not speak.....

    "The federal funding for Berkeley should cut because they are not allowing free speech"....

    THEN that same individual a big gun on Brietbart.com comes out during a TV interview supporting pedophilia with young boys and get immediately canned by CPAC as their main speaker....

    That was the individual Trump was tweet supporting.....

    NOW another clash on Berkeley's campus....

    AND Twitters response to white supremacists/nationalists spreading as much hate as IS...is what? Deletes IS/AQ and allows white supremacist/nationalist comments...

    Complicit in spreading Russian propaganda & now in terrorizing #Berkeley. Now would be a good time for @twitter to ban Nazis planning riots.

    Berkeley was not a clash between anti/pro Trump groups. This was a pre-planned assault by a group of violent alt-right Trump supporters.

    A "call to arms" was issued to Trump supporters a month ahead of events @ Berkeley today. Don't let this get pinned on anti-Trump protesters
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    If one wants to understand the Russian use of Provocation here is a great article on it from 2014....

    https://20committee.com/2014/03/29/u...g-provocation/

    Understanding Provocation

    March 29, 2014

    One of the most powerful tools the Kremlin has in its secret arsenal of Special War is provocation, what they call provokatsiya. While Moscow cannot claim to have invented this technique, which has existed as long as there have been secret services, there’s no doubt that Russians have perfected the art and taken it to a whole new level of sophistication and deviousness. At times, it can become a strategy all on its own (not always, mind you, with edifying results).
    Provokatsiya simply means taking control of your enemies in secret and encouraging them to do things that discredit them and help you. You plant your own agents provocateurs and flip legitimate activists, turning them to your side. When you’re dealing with extremists to start with, getting them to do crazy, self-defeating things isn’t often difficult. In some cases, you simply create extremists and terrorists where they don’t exist. This is causing problems in order to solve them, and since the Tsarist period, Russian intelligence has been known to do just that.
    While this isn’t a particularly nice technique, it works surprisingly well, particularly if you don’t care about bloody and messy consequences. Credulous Westerners are a big help. Perhaps the most infamous Kremlin case of provokatsiya was the TRUST operation of the 1920s. In the aftermath of the Russian Civil War, Bolshevik control was incomplete and Moscow faced the problem that a large number of Whites, their recent enemies, had gotten sanctuary in Europe, where they plotted the reconquest of Holy Russia.
    Soon the White emigration klatched in the cafes of Paris and Berlin was invigorated by tantalizing rumors that there existed a secret anti-Bolshevik movement underground in the USSR, calling itself the Monarchist Union of Central Russia. Before long, prominent Whites gave this shadowy group their political and financial support, as did several Western intelligence services who desired the end – or at least the harassment – of Bolshevism. Intelligence from inside the Soviet Union was a scarce commodity at the time. Some emigres were even prompted to clandestinely return to Russia in the hope of aiding the resistance. Among them was the famous revolutionary Boris Savinkov, who had broken with the Bolsheviks and was one of Moscow’s top public enemies.
    But word of Savinkov dried up once he reached Russia, as it did for all the emigres and spies who tried to enter the Soviet Union to establish contact with the underground resistance. They were dead. The TRUST operation was all a mirage; there in fact was no Monarchist Union of Central Russia, it was a front for Soviet intelligence. By 1926, Western intelligence began to suspect the truth, but by that point the Soviet secret police had been running their false-flag operation for five years, during which time it had eliminated or neutralized several of its top enemies while causing them, and several Western spy services, to waste time, money, and energy on a mirage that was actually Soviet-run.
    Russians have employed this crafty model countless times since, as have the many intelligence services that have received training in the dark arts from Moscow. Cuban intelligence is notorious for this – it can be reliably assumed that many of the most hard-line anti-Castro exiles are actually on their payroll – while in the 1990s the Algerian military intelligence service, the feared DRS, executed an enormous version of the TRUST operation against its Islamist foes, defeating them in detail, but at the cost of thousands of innocent lives.
    This model must be kept in mind during current discussions of Ukraine, where the Kremlin assures us that the government in Kyiv are “fascists” planning a “Nazi” takeover. While there are right-wingers in Ukraine who have troubling views, their numbers are inflated for effect by Moscow, something which too many Westerners accept uncritically. Moreover, some of the most hardline Ukrainian nationalists are secretly under Moscow’s control, and there’s nothing new about this.
    The Soviet secret police infiltrated far-right Ukrainian emigre groups in the 1920s and 1930s, provoking them into self-defeating acts and killing off their leaders. Similar provocation was employed after the Second World War by Stalin’s secret police to crush resistance in Western Ukraine, which lasted into the early 1950s, while throughout the Cold War, Ukrainian rightists abroad were targets for surveillance, harassment, and sometimes assassination by the KGB.
    Since the Soviet collapse, similar Russian provocations in Ukraine are broadly understood by security circles in Kyiv, which is part of why the SBU, Ukraine’s Security Service, is now attempting to reign in far-right groups like the Right Sector (Pravyy Sektor): not only are they potentially dangerous to democracy, they may be on Moscow’s payroll too. This has come to a head due to the death this week of the notorious far-right activist Oleksandr Muzychko, AKA Sashko Billy, a vocal hater of Russians and Jews, who fell in a murky shootout with police in the Western Ukrainian city of Rivne. Muzychko was so extreme that he actually fought in Chechnya in the 1990s with the local resistance – Moscow accused him of war crimes there – and his funeral turned into a far-right rally against the government in Kyiv. Predictably, all this got huge coverage in Russian media, which is eager to demonstrate the “fascist” nature of all Ukrainians who do not wish to be ruled by the Kremlin.
    Unfortunately, we can expect more provocations as this crisis continues. A directly relevant example of what may happen is a series of events in Croatia in 1991, another country where the position of Jews is politically sensitive due to the Second World War and the Holocaust. As Yugoslavia was collapsing, Slobodan Milosevic and his Serbian allies constantly parroted the line that the government in newly independent Croatia was really “fascist” and they planned to resurrect Nazi-era war crimes against minorities, including Jews, and intervention was required from outside the country to prevent “genocide” (if this all sounds to you remarkably like Kremlin propaganda now against Ukraine, it should). As in Ukraine today, there were neo-fascists in Croatia in 1991, but they were politically marginal and considered a threat by the government.
    Just like the Soviet Union, Communist Yugoslavia had manipulated, harassed, and killed off Croatian nationalists for decades. In a Balkan version of the TRUST, in the late 1940s, Tito’s secret police lured would-be guerrilla fighters into the country – you knew this was coming – to support a shadowy resistance army: of course it didn’t exist, and it served to get the infiltrators killed. For decades, Yugoslav secret police kept close tabs on Croatian emigres involved in anti-regime activities, employing provocation to discredit them very effectively. Several dozen Croatian exiles in the West were also murdered by Yugoslav assassins. Croatians understood that many of their most radical nationalists were actually under Yugoslav control.
    Fears that newly independent Croatia was under threat by “fascists” – just as Belgrade was telling everyone loudly – reached a fever pitch in the summer of 1991 with a series of attacks on Jewish targets in Zagreb. That August, bombs went off at a Jewish community center and the main Jewish cemetery; although there were no casualties, the explosions caused a panic in Croatia’s tiny Jewish community, particularly because there were other bombings at the same time on rail lines in several locations, leading to a sense of anarchy. Soon unverified reports emerged placing blame for the attacks on the government, explicitly fingering President Franjo Tudjman as the figure behind the bombings.
    This was all strenuously denied by Tudjman and his government, which moved quickly to reassure Jews they were in no danger. This was all a significant distraction while Croatia was fighting for its life as Yugoslav troops and Serbian irregulars took over one-third of the country that summer and fall. The bombings and accompanying propaganda earned Croatia a black eye internationally when it least needed it, and before long Jewish groups were pondering a mass evacuation from the country, just in case.
    It turned out it was all one big provocation engineered by the Yugoslav military’s Counterintelligence Service (KOS), which boasted a substantial agent network in Croatia, including several prominent right-wingers. The Zagreb bombings and accompanying anti-Croatia propaganda were termed Operation LABRADOR by KOS, which considered it to be highly successful. On the heels of the attacks, Zagreb security services worked hard to roll up the KOS networks in the country, but by that point the damage had been done. The false-flag bombings were a reminder to the world that Zagreb was “really” under the control of “fascists,” a lie that the Tudjman government never fully overcame in certain quarters.
    Provocation combined with propaganda can be powerfully effective in transmitting Big Lies about people, places, and even whole countries, especially in times of crisis. The Kremlin has been honing this unpleasant skill for more than a century. The next time you hear about violence in Ukraine – and, sadly, you certainly will – it’s good to remember that provokatsiya is real.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Here though is my concern and you see it in my postings here that while suppose to be for Russian activities...we are now seeing a converging and or collusion between Russian disinformation/propaganda and fake news and the US ultra right (white nationalist/white supremacists) and also not least the US left feeding and using each others disinformation/propaganda and fake news...

    BOTH using effectively social media and botnets to carry their narratives into MSM...

    Example:

    If you look intently at a lot of Trump's statements he is actually dog whistling to white supremacists and white nationalists...

    Trump supporters, opponents clash in California park
    http://reut.rs/2oiSSPC

    The demo was organized and led by....
    Damigo, who founded Identity Europa, is a convicted felon who served time for drunkenly pulling a gun on a cab driver he thought was Iraqi.

    Identity Europa appeals to whites not people of color or ethnic backgrounds does it not?

    Nathan Damigo, a California white supremacist, apparently punched a woman in Berkeley. Profile:
    https://www.google.com/amp/www.latim...tory,amp.html#

    REMEMBER the Trump tweet after a major demo clash in Berkeley where a well know white nationalist/supremacist attempted to speak on campus and was forces off campus and he could not speak.....

    "The federal funding for Berkeley should cut because they are not allowing free speech"....

    THEN that same individual a big gun on Brietbart.com comes out during a TV interview supporting pedophilia with young boys and get immediately canned by CPAC as their main speaker....

    That was the individual Trump was tweet supporting.....

    NOW another clash on Berkeley's campus....

    AND Twitters response to white supremacists/nationalists spreading as much hate as IS...is what? Deletes IS/AQ and allows white supremacist/nationalist comments...

    Complicit in spreading Russian propaganda & now in terrorizing #Berkeley. Now would be a good time for @twitter to ban Nazis planning riots.

    Berkeley was not a clash between anti/pro Trump groups. This was a pre-planned assault by a group of violent alt-right Trump supporters.

    A "call to arms" was issued to Trump supporters a month ahead of events @ Berkeley today. Don't let this get pinned on anti-Trump protesters
    This event really does need to be intensively looked at....

    From an interesting white nationalist blogsite that was previously in the shadows until this clash...

    Wearechange.org
    https://wearechange.org/based-stick-...ense-24-hours/

    A “based” cult hero has emerged from the violent showdown between antifa and supporters of President Donald Trump in Berkeley over the weekend — and after learning of his arrest, the right banded together to raise $70,000 in just 24 hours to support his legal defense.
    As the violence continued, Chapman emerged — wearing a helmet and respirator mask and holding a shield adorned with an American flag in one hand and a big stick in the other. The “alt-knight,” better known as “Based Stickman” was born.

    NOW you see the tie in to this twitter account
    Mike Cernovich us

    @Cernovich


    This US twitter account was used to massively push the Russian infowar narrative on twitter @Syrianhoax in order to disprove Assad used chemical wepaons....which started out over Damascus into Russian and then to this account and from there to Infowars and Breitbart.com

    AND there is no connections between Russian info warfare and the US white nationalist/supremacist blogsites and social media?????

    Right now they are basically feeding off of each other....

    More interesting is the evidently planned for violence aspect .....
    So.. it definitely looks like the tweet on the R is providing instructions for making a weapon to get past security at Berkeley.
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    From 30 MAR 2017

    NEW: According to Paul Wood of the BBC, here's what Russia did w/ state voter registration databases they breached:
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786#…

    While initially not fully confirmed some of it is now being confirmed.......

    One sentence stands out though..."US intelligence confirmed that voter rolls had indeed been scanned by server in Russia in October 2016"....


    If one goes back to the initial reporting about the voter roll breaches...no one could actually state anything had actually been changed on them by the hackers....which puzzled some in the IT security business....

    Apparently what was not considered was the downloading of key individual information for key districts into a server based in Russia...because when people hear hacking...they assume automatically something was changed and or damaged...

    Coupled with the ability of using that dataset against similar datasets being analyzed by a "big data company"....Cambridge Analytics
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