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Latest UK cyber-scare: 'Iran-linked hackers' steal research secrets from dozens of universities


RT
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 17:20 UTC
Hacker
© Kacper Pempel/Reuters
A UK-based firm says hackers with ties to the Iranian government are targeting the world's top universities to steal unpublished research - at least from those academics who are fooled by bogus login pages.

The Counter Threat Unit (CTU) from UK-based cyber security firm Secureworks published a report stating that 76 universities around the world have been targeted. The attackers, they say, are "linked to the Cobalt Dickens threat group associated with the Iranian government."

Academic institutions in Australia, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States are said to have been attacked. While their investigation is still underway, the CTU has not named the exact universities under attack - but they have confirmed that those targeted include universities listed in the ranks of the Times Higher Education Top 50 list.

According to Secureworks, research into the IP addresses hosting the spoof pages revealed just how far-reaching the mass-scale campaign actually was: 16 web domains contained over 300 spoof websites and login pages for 76 universities in 14 countries.
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'Patriot or warmonger?' Twitter puts McCain under the microscope


RT
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 17:10 UTC
mccain death announcement
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The death of John McCain caused mixed feelings and triggered a heated debate over the American values represented by the Republican. While some commended McCain's patriotism, others questioned his moral integrity.

Following the announcement of 81-year-old John McCain's death, the public took to social media to express their condolences and share mixed feelings about the Republican's life and deeds. Amid an endless outpouring of sympathies for the McCain family, some chose to challenge the massive praise McCain received posthumously.

Comment: An objective view will come down decidedly on the side of warmonger. Wherever McCain travelled, death and destruction soon followed.

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"Pharmaceutical sovereignty": Venezuela to regulate medicine prices in recovery plan


teleSUR
Sat, 25 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas
© Reuters
Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas earlier this week in a show of support for the new economic reforms that took effect as part of the government's Economic Recovery Plan.
"We are going to achieve pharmaceutical sovereignty," Maduro said.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked for the price of medicines to be regulated as a part of the government's recovery and economic prosperity plan.

"Set the maximum retail prices of all medicines in the country in accordance with the updated economic recovery plan," he said during a meeting with health workers that was broadcast on television and radio.

Maduro then asked government ministers to coordinate a meeting "this week" with "all public and private businesspeople in the pharmaceutical sector for a plan... to make decisions on production, import, and prices."

Comment: Venezuela has an uphill battle ahead on alll fronts, but with multi-polar powers, like Russia and China, branching out into all areas of industry, including pharmaceutical production, they are no longer beholden to the belligerent US and EU:

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Attention

Trump slams Tibbetts coverage: MSM lost interest when they found out illegal alien charged with murder

Tony Lee
Breitbart News
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:20 UTC
mollie tibbetts Trump on Tibbetts Coverage: MSM Lost Interest When They Found Out Illegal Alien Charged with Murder
© Facebook/ Associated Press
Mollie Tibbetts (L) Cristhian Bahena Rivera (R)
President Donald Trump on Friday evening accused the mainstream media of not covering Mollie Tibbetts's murder "the way it should be covered" as soon as the media found out that an illegal alien was charged with her murder.

Speaking at a fundraising dinner for the Ohio Republican Party, Trump said the mainstream media "didn't want to cover it the way it should be covered" when "they found out that it was this horrible illegal immigrant that viciously killed her."

"Just this week we learned that Iowa authorities have charged an illegal alien in the murder of a college student-Mollie Tibbetts," Trump said, adding that "everybody was talking about Mollie," who the president said was a "beautiful, wonderful, incredible person."

Comment: Illegal immigrant confesses to killing missing Iowa jogger Mollie Tibbetts

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Comey only looked at 1% of Weiner/Clinton emails - Strzok picked which ones

Mike Brest
Daily Caller
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:54 UTC
Peter Strzok
© Glare/AP
Peter Strzok
RealClear Investigations reporter Paul Sperry basically accused former FBI Director James Comey of lying under oath Thursday, referring to his bombshell investigative report that the Bureau reviewed a mere fraction of the emails contained on disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner's laptop.

WATCH:


"James Comey told Congress that they had reviewed all of the Clinton emails, hundreds of thousands, that were found on the Weiner laptop. But that was not true. They barely looked at any of them. Just 3,000 of 700,000," Sperry began during his appearance on Fox News's "Ingraham Angle."

Jason Chaffetz, who was filling in for Laura Ingraham, interrupted, "Wait, wait, wait. They looked at how many?"

"3,000 out of potentially relevant 700,000 emails were actually individually examined for classified information and incriminating evidence," Sperry continued. "Peter Strzok, the disgraced agent who was in charge of this midyear investigation into the Clinton emails, he actually personally handpicked the 3,000 sample. And with two other investigators, they went through them all supposedly, pulled an all-nighter, ordered pizza, and said nothing new here. Case closed once again."

Comment:





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Iran's defense minister arrives in Syria for reconstruction talks


RT
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 06:03 UTC
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami
© defanews.ir
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami (second to the right)
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami has arrived in Damascus to meet senior Syrian officials, the ministry said.

Hatami is expected to hold meetings with his Syrian counterpart and heads of the Syrian Armed Forces, the defense ministry said in a statement on its website.

Speaking to the media upon his arrival in the Syrian capital, the top military official announced that Tehran hopes to have "active participation in the reconstruction of Syria."

The aim of the trip is also to develop "bilateral cooperation" with the Arab Republic, according to the statement.

Along with Turkey and Russia, Iran is tasked with enforcing the ceasefire in de-escalation zones in Syria established as a result of the Astana talks in May 2017. Under the memorandum that was agreed upon, government forces and armed opposition groups were required to cease all fighting within the safe zones.

Comment: Typical US and Israeli arrogance thinking they can tell Syria whom it may or may not welcome onto its territory. But it makes sense because the US and Israel are furious that their proxy-army in Syria, ISIS, has been thwarted thanks to the collective efforts of Syria, Russia, Iran, Turkey and, more recently, China. Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: The Art of The Iran no-Deal: Trump, Israel, And The End of The Atlantic Alliance

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Top ten holes in the UK govt's official Salisbury narrative: #4 - The missing 4 hours

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Sat, 25 Aug 2018 15:47 UTC
Sergei Yulia Skripal
© Global Look Press
Sergei and Yulia Skripal
According to the Metropolitan Police investigation into the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the official timeline of their movements on the weekend of the incident is as follows:
Saturday 3rd March
  • 14.40hrs on Saturday 3 March: Yulia arrives at Heathrow Airport on a flight from Russia.
Sunday 4th March
  • 09.15hrs on Sunday, 4 March: Sergei's car is seen in the area of London Road, Churchill Way North and Wilton Road.
  • 13.30hrs: Sergei's car is seen being driven down Devizes Road, towards the town centre.
  • 13:40hrs: Sergei and Yulia arrive in Sainsbury's upper level car park at the Maltings. At some time after this, they go to the Bishops Mill Pub in the town centre.
  • 14.20hrs: They dine at Zizzi Restaurant.
  • 15:35hrs: They leave Zizzi Restaurant.
  • 16.15hrs: Emergency services receive a report from a member of the public and police arrive at the scene within minutes, where they find Sergei and Yulia extremely ill on a park bench near the restaurant.
Whilst fully realising that such a timeline does not necessarily need to include every detail, such as the time that Yulia arrived in Salisbury on the Saturday afternoon, nevertheless, there are some serious problems with this account, which are broadly as follows:
  1. Firstly, it omits crucial information from the morning of 4th March.
  2. Secondly, it ignores a very important incident on the afternoon of 4th March.
  3. Thirdly, it is, I believe, incorrect in the sequence of events it presents.
In this piece, I want to concentrate on the first one of these - the morning - and then cover the second and third in subsequent pieces.

Comment: See also:

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Russian military sends two frigates to Med amid warnings of false-flag chemical attack planned for Idlib, Syria


Sputnik
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:41 UTC
grigorovich
© Yantar Baltic Shipbuilding plant press service
Russian Defense Ministry warned that militants in Idlib may be preparing to stage a chemical weapons attack against the local civilian population and thus create a pretext for a US strike.

Admiral Grigorovich and Admiral Essen, two frigates of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, are heading to the Mediterranean Sea in order to bolster Russia's military presence in the region, according to a statement issued by Russian Defense Ministry's press service.

While en route to their final destination, the two vessels reportedly conducted a series of naval exercises, including the detection and tracking of a simulated enemy submersible target.

This development occurred as Russian Defense Ministry accused the United States, the United Kingdom and France of preparing to carry out new strikes against Syria under the pretext of chemical weapons use by Syrian government forces.

As the ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov explained, militants in Idlib province are preparing to stage a chemical weapon attack against civilians in order to blame Damascus, while the United States stands ready to launch a punitive strike against Syria as soon as the necessary pretext becomes available.

"This provocation with the active participation of the British special services will serve as another pretext for the US, UK and France to conduct a missile strike on the Syrian government and economic facilities," Konashenkov claimed.

Comment: The last remaining White Helmets remain in Idlib. While the jihadists don't stand a chance once the offensive to liberate the province begins, that doesn't mean they won't stick to their past tactics: calling in American air support by faking a chemical attack and blaming the 'Assad regime'.

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Red Flag

Russian MoD warns 'foreign specialists' may stage chemical attack in Syria in 2 days to frame Assad


RT
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:34 UTC
White Helmets in Syria
© Omar Haj Kadour / AFP
White Helmets in Syria/
"Foreign specialists" have arrived in Syria and may stage a chemical attack using chlorine in "the next two days," the Russian Defense Ministry said. This will be filmed for international media to frame Damascus forces.

Defense Ministry Spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said the operation is planned to unfold in the village of Kafr Zita in Syria's northwestern Hama Province in "the next two days."

Konashenkov said that "English-speaking specialists" are already in place to use "poisonous agents." While a group of residents from the north has been transported to Kafr Zita and is currently being prepared "to take part in the staging of the attack" and be filmed suffering from supposed "'chemical munitions' and 'barrel bombs' launched by the Syrian government forces."

Comment: For more on this story: Bolton Calls on Al-Qaeda to Stage More Chemical Attacks in Syria

It also looks like Russia is prepared for the US response of the false flag: Russia sends largest naval armada of Syrian War in response to reports of imminent US attack:
Russia has built up its forces around the Mediterranean Sea in response to reports of the U.S., France, and Great Britain preparing to attack Syria.

According to Yoruk Isik of the Bosphorus Observer, the Russian Navy has sent another armada of ships towards Syria's territorial waters in order to increase the strength of their forces around the country.

Isik said that the powerful Russian warships, Admiral Grigorovich and Admiral Essen class frigate, were spotted transiting the Bosphorus Strait en route to the Port of Tartous.

This latest move by the Russian Navy comes just 24 hours after they sent three ships en route to the Port of Tartous in western Syria.

With the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) preparing to launch a large-scale offensive in northwest Syria, Russia fears that the jihadist rebels may fake a chemical weapons attack in order to get the U.S. and its allies to attack the government.


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'Most corrupt' Mexican governor charged with money laundering


teleSUR
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:38 UTC
Duarte
© EFE
Former Veracruz Governor Javier Duarte in the process of being extradited from Guatemala City to Mexico, July 4, 2017.
If convicted, Javier Duarte faces up to 40 years in prison for money laundering, plus up to 10 years for illicit association.

Mexico's ex-governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte, has been charged with money laundering and illicit association, and faces up to 50 years in prison if convicted.

Mexico's Public Prosecuting Office (PGR) presented the new charges against Duarte on Wednesday following a year-long investigation, explaining that the evidence was "not enough to prove the organized crime charges that had been initially presented."

Media, both local and international, were quick to point out that the reclassification of the charges could mean Duarte will be freed from pre-trial detention until the trial commences.

Allegations against Duarte have mounted since he voluntarily left office in October 2016. Prosecutors presented enough evidence to link him to a money laundering network that funneled about US$20 million into his pocket. He was later expelled from the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) and fled to Guatemala.
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