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NSO spyware said used to hack phones of US State Department officials working in Uganda


The Times of Israel
Fri, 03 Dec 2021 08:24 UTC
Pegasus Spyware
© AFP/Getty ImagesPegasus Spyware
Israeli spyware firm NSO Group's software was reportedly used by an unknown assailant to hack the cell phones of at least nine United States State Department employees, in what — if confirmed — would be the first time the embattled company's technology was used to target American officials.

The hack targeted State Department workers in Uganda or those specializing in the East African country, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

All of the American staff targeted were using iPhones. Last week, Apple announced that it was suing the NSO Group for targeting the users of its devices, saying the firm at the center of the Pegasus surveillance scandal needs to be held accountable.

The suit from the Silicon Valley giant adds new trouble for NSO, which was engulfed in controversy over reports that tens of thousands of activists, journalists and politicians were listed as potential targets of its Pegasus spyware.

While the phone numbers of US officials were included on a long list of potential targets revealed in a series of media reports earlier this year, it was never confirmed whether those phones were actually hacked.
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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: NAZI Redux - Covid Camps in Australia, Mandatory Vaccinations in EU


Sott.net
Sun, 05 Dec 2021 19:23 UTC
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© Sott.netAustralian quarantine center
The 'Voluntary Covid Quarantine Facilities' are up and running - and it's no surprise where they're up and running first. This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall pay a virtual visit to Howard Springs, Australia, where the government has been sending 'Covid cases' for 'isolation holidays' in order to 'protect the general population'. But the brutal reality behind such euphemisms are already showing. What was 'conspiracy theory' in 2020 is now lived fact.

Meanwhile, several European governments have followed Austria's NAZI lead, announcing 'lockdowns for the unvaccinated', including Germany, where outgoing Chancellor Merkel made it her last 'democratic' act after almost two decades in power. Waiting in the wings, ex-German Defence Minister Ursula Von der Leyen, now the EU's top Eurocrat, wants to force vaccinations (which her husband's company produces) on the 33% of people still holding out across Europe.

Against all (true) science and reason, the UK government reported last week that it expects 'boosters' and 'Covid measures' to be around for 'the next ten years' - and is preparing the ground by ordering all frontline doctors to forego check-ups of anyone older than 75 so that they may instead function as full-time jabbers of the entire populace. No matter the scale and scope of protests and public resistance, governments are as determined as ever to 'vaccinate' every living thing - in perpetuity, apparently.

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'But what do you really think?' Trump says General Milley 'a f*cking idiot'

Mia Cathell
The Post Millennial
Sun, 05 Dec 2021 17:22 UTC
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© Reuters / Michael Reynolds and Eduardo MunozMark Milley (L) and Donald Trump (R)
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump called "woke" General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "a f*cking idiot" at an event Saturday.

Trump made the remark at an event in Mar-a-Lago hosted by conservative organization Turning Point Action, a C4 affiliate of Turning Point USA.

In reference to the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Trump said, "I want every nut, every bolt, every screw. We're taking everything. We're taking down the tents. They left all the tents. They left everything. Couldn't they have flown in a couple of hundred pilots and flown the planes back?" Trump asked, pivoting to grill Milley. Human Events Daily's Jack Posobiec got the scoop.

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Feds might release 'alternative' Mueller report soon

Josh Gerstein
Politico
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:01 UTC
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© Susuan Walsh/APFormer special counsel Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference on July 24, 2019.
"Primary processing" of compendium mentioned in Mueller aide's book should be complete next month, court filing says.

An unpublished investigative compilation sometimes referred to as the "Alternative Mueller Report" has been located in Justice Department files and could be released soon, according to a letter filed in federal court Thursday.

A top deputy to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, revealed in a book he published last year that the team he headed prepared a summary of all its work — apparently including details not contained in the final report made public in 2019.

"At least for posterity, I had all the [team] members ... write up an internal report memorializing everything we found, our conclusions, and the limitations on the investigation, and provided it to the other team leaders as well as had it maintained in our files," wrote Weissmann in Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation.

Comment: Considering the performance the doddering Robert Mueller put on at the congressional hearings, it's pretty clear Weissmann was really running the Russiagate 'investigation' show.

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Russia 'assembling 175,000 troops to invade Ukraine', US spies claim but provide no evidence


RT
Sat, 04 Dec 2021 12:13 UTC
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© Sputnik / Maksim BogodvidRussian servicemen march after the drills of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) peacekeeping forces in Kazan.
Russia is allegedly planing to invade Ukraine in the new year, with up to 175,000 troops taking part in the operation, the Washington Post has claimed, citing US intelligence papers and a customary unnamed official.

"The Russian plans call for a military offensive against Ukraine as soon as early 2022," an anonymous Biden administration official, who may or may not exist, claimed.

The alleged operation is going to involve the "extensive movement of 100 battalion tactical groups with an estimated 175,000 personnel, along with armor, artillery, and equipment," the alleged source said.

Comment: It's perhaps no coincidence that these claims of 'Russia amassing troops on Ukraine's borders' appear just as Ukraine and NATO were doing just that on Russia's borders. However, as various analysts have pointed out, the chance of war between Russia and Ukraine is highly unlikely, and instead this belligerence is intended to further a variety of other agendas, including but not limited to, diverting attention from the encroaching dystopia at home in the West, as well the ongoing demonization of Russia:

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US State Department phones hacked with Israeli company Pegasus spyware


The Hindu
Sat, 04 Dec 2021 20:30 UTC
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© Amir Cohen/ReutersNSO Group says it works with law enforcement agencies to track criminals and 'terrorists'
The hacks, which took place in the last several months, hit U.S. officials either based in Uganda or focused on matters concerning the East African country.

Apple Inc iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to four people familiar with the matter.

The hacks, which took place in the last several months, hit U.S. officials either based in Uganda or focused on matters concerning the East African country, two of the sources said.

Comment: Considering the tens of thousands of known victims, a significant number of whom were high profile government officials, it's highly unlikely that only 9 US officials, and only those working in Africa on specific telephone numbers, were affected, but it's understandable that governments would be rather reluctant to admit that their officials have fallen victim to such a simple yet compromising hack:

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New Secret Service documents reveal Bill Clinton's trip with Ghislaine Maxwell to India


Judicial Watch
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00 UTC
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© Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch announced today that it received 4 pages of records from the Secret Service that reveal that Bill Clinton took a trip with Ghislaine Maxwell to India. Maxwell, a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, who is now on trial for sex trafficking and other charges.

The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Secret Service asking for information about any trips Bill Clinton took with Ghislaine Maxwell.

The records include exchanges between Secret Service officers about a trip that Maxwell went on with President Clinton. In a November 20, 2003, email exchange titled 'requested info', a Secret Service official advises a colleague, "The LA lead is [redacted]. Manifest to Osaka and LA (has not been confirmed but this should not deviate too much). FPOTUS Clinton [redacted] Ghislaine Maxwell [redacted]. Crew [redacted]."

Comment: See also:

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Top physician threatens 'only harsh measures' can prevent Ebola-like Covid variant


RT
Sat, 27 Nov 2021 18:49 UTC
World Medical Association
© Reuters / Denis BalibouseThe logo of the World Medical Association based in Ferney-Voltaire, France
Further mutations of the Covid-19 virus could spawn a strain as contagious as Delta and as deadly as the Ebola virus. That's the stark warning from the World Medical Association.

Frank Ulrich Montgomery, chairman of the global physicians' society the World Medical Association (WMA), shared his fears with Germany's Funke media group's newspapers on Saturday. He stressed the importance of not "giving the virus a chance" to mutate any further. To achieve this, it may be necessary to keep "vaccinating the world for years" to come, Montgomery said.

The Ebola virus, whose horrific effects on humans could be matched by a new covid strain just as the WMA chairman warns, was first discovered back in 1976 in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The deadliest outbreak to date occurred in West Africa between 2014 and 2016, claiming more than 11,000 lives. The disease brought on by the virus causes a severe fever and internal bleeding, with the average fatality rate being around 50%, according to the World Health Organization. Some of the known strains, however, have led to death in a terrifying 90% of all cases.

Comment: Also see: NewsReal: Omicron! Nu Variant! More Lockdowns! More Jabs!



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The impact of misclassifying deaths in evaluating vaccine safety: the same statistical illusion

Norman Fenton, Martin Neil
Probability and Risk
Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
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© WHO
In a previous post we showed that if there was a one-week delay in reporting deaths then a vaccine that was a placebo would be seen to have a decreased mortality rate for the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated. In other words, an illusion of effectiveness is created by the one-week delay in reporting. This is shown in Figure 1 with our hypothetical example comparing the correct figures to the reported figures based on a one-week delay. The example assumes that in this population of 10 million people there is a (constant) weekly mortality rate of 50 deaths per 100,000 people. Each week the population reduces by the number of deaths the previous week. All death numbers (which are simply the relevant population multiplied by 50/100000) are rounded to whole numbers.
Table 1 A/B
Figure 1: Hypothetical example of a placebo vaccine introduced into a population. A) shows correct results; B) shows results reported if there isa one-week delay in reporting deaths
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Mossad recruited Iranian scientists to blow up nuclear facility


The Statesman
Fri, 03 Dec 2021 06:17 UTC
Natanz facility
© IANSNatanz Nuclear Facility
Israel's Mossad recruited a team of Iranian nuclear scientists to carry out a covert operation which blew up one of the regime's most secure nuclear facilities earlier this year, the Jewish Chronicle reported.

Up to 10 scientists were approached by Israeli agents and agreed to destroy the underground A1000 centrifuge hall at Natanz in April, though they believed that they were working for international dissident groups.

Some of the explosives they used were dropped into the compound by a drone and quietly collected by the scientists, while others were smuggled into the high security facility hidden in boxes of food on a catering lorry, the report said.

The ensuing destruction caused chaos in the highest echelons of the Iranian leadership. It demolished 90 per cent of the centrifuges at the nuclear plant, delaying progress towards a bomb and putting the key complex out of action for up to nine months, the report added.

The new details are among astonishing secrets of three connected Mossad operations that took place over an 11-month period of sabotage in Iran. The first two, in July 2020 and April 2021, targeted the complex in Natanz using explosives, while he third, in June this year, took the form of a quadcopter assault on the Iran Centrifuge Technology Company (TESA), in the city of Karaj, 30 miles northwest of Tehran, Jewish Chronicle reported.
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© APNatanz uranium enrichment facility
How they did it:
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