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'Democratic talks to replace club interests': UNGA approves Russian-drafted resolution against cybercrime despite US opposition


RT
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:32 UTC
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© Reuters / Lucas Jackson
A new resolution paving the way for experts from around the world to work together on a new treaty combating cybercrimes was passed by the UN General Assembly despite strong opposition from the US and its allies.

The document drafted jointly by Russia and 47 other nations has been adopted by the 193-member international body with 79 votes in favor and 60 votes against as well as 33 abstentions. The resolution calls on the General Assembly to form a committee of experts representing all parts of the world to "elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes.

The committee is expected to meet for the first time in August 2020 to outline its activities, Russia's deputy UN envoy Gennady Kuzmin told TASS, adding that the fight against crimes in cyberspace should finally become a truly international effort, which would take into account the interests of all states.
"An era of club agreements should give way to a democratic negotiations process."
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Bad Guys

US plans to conduct cyberwar against Russia in retaliation for unproven election meddling

Scott Ritter
RT
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:26 UTC
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© REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration
Despite having provided no proof of Russian meddling in the 2016 or 2020 US presidential election, the Pentagon is preparing to launch a cyberwar against Russia in retaliation. Could the real reason be political?

From May 2017 until March 2019, a team of investigators and lawyers led by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller engaged in a frenetic search for evidence sustaining allegations that individuals affiliated with the campaign of President Donald Trump — and even the president himself — had colluded and conspired with the Russian government to influence the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election in Trump's favor. Numerous high-profile politicians, civil servants, and media personalities invested a tremendous amount of political and personal capital pursuing various allegations.

Among the most prominent of these held that hackers allegedly working on behalf of Russian Military Intelligence (the GRU) gained access to computer servers belonging to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), extracted sensitive data, and then conspired to have this information released to the public in a manner designed to harm the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
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Meddling: Soros-backed propaganda org promotes deceptive timeline for Trump impeachment case

Aaron Klein
Breitbart
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 18:32 UTC
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© Associated PressGeorge Soros
For at least the second significant time, an organization financed by billionaire activist George Soros released material playing a central role in directly fueling the impeachment narrative targeting President Trump.

The news media and Democrats are seizing on emails released to the Soros-funded Center for Public Integrity on Friday showing the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested the Pentagon withhold military aid to Ukraine the same day as Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The OMB immediately pushed back explaining the aid hold was actually announced seven days prior to Trump's July 25 phone call and that the Center for Public Integrity was harping on one line within 146 pages of documents that the organization obtained to paint an inaccurate and misleading picture of the timing of the aid hold.
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Israeli doctors are enablers in Israel's intelligence agency torture industry

Ruchama Marton
Palestine Post
Thu, 26 Dec 2019 18:16 UTC
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Tariq Abu Khudair, a Palestinian child with US citizenship
From approving brutal interrogation techniques to writing false medical reports, doctors in Israel have taken an active role in the torture of Palestinian prisoners.

If the Shin Bet runs a school for its agents and interrogators, the curriculum most certainly includes a class on how to tell a lie. The texts taught, it seems, do not change with the years. In 1993, responding to accusations that the Shin Bet brutally tortured Palestinian detainee Hassan Zubeidi, then Commander of the IDF Northern Command Yossi Peled told Israeli journalist Gabi Nitzan that "there is no torture in Israel. I served for 30 years in the IDF and I know what I am talking about."

Twenty-six years later, Deputy Chief of the Shin Bet and former Shin Bet interrogator, Yitzhak Ilan repeated the same line to news presenter Ya'akov Eilon on national television while speaking about Samer Arbeed, a 44-year-old Palestinian who was hospitalized in critical condition after he had been reportedly tortured by the Shin Bet. Arbeed is suspected of organizing a deadly bombing that killed a teenage Israeli girl and wounded her father and brother at a spring in the West Bank in August. Ilan bristled at the notion that the Shin Bet was somehow responsible for Arbeed's condition.

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MIB

Intel probe may put CIA's 'Bloody Gina' and AG Barr on collision course

Greg Brower
Politico
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:58 UTC
Gina Haspel
© Alex Brandon / Associated PressGina Haspel
The prosecutor appointed by Attorney General Bill Barr to examine the origins of the Russia investigation is focusing much of his attention on the CIA, placing the agency's director, Gina Haspel, at the center of a politically toxic tug-of-war between the Justice Department and the intelligence community.

The prosecutor, John Durham, has reportedly asked the CIA for former director John Brennan's communications as he examines the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that concluded Russian President Vladimir Putin intervened in the election specifically to help Donald Trump.

Barr has been skeptical of the agency's conclusions about Putin's motivations, despite corroboration by the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee and an adversarial review by former CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

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Better Earth

Zelensky says prisoner swap supposed to happen tomorrow, Dec. 29


RFE/RL
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:49 UTC
Zelensky
© Paolo Pellegrin-Magnum Photos TIMEUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that while a prisoner swap is "supposed to" take place on December 29, the list of individuals to be handed over between central Ukrainian authorities and Russia-backed separatists has not been finalized.

The notion of an "all-for-all" prisoner exchange gained momentum during peace talks in Paris on December 9 among the so-called Normandy Four -- Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany -- trying to bring an end to the five-year conflict.

"There is supposed to be an exchange [of prisoners] tomorrow," Zelenskiy told journalists during a visit to Ukraine's Ivano-Frankivsk region for a bridge opening on December 28, according to his official website.

"We look forward to this. The verification of all people is not completed yet," Zelenskiy added.

He went on to call it the year's most difficult task.

The UNIAN news agency quoted a representative of Donetsk separatists as saying that Kyiv was expected to release 87 people and the separatists 55.

But there was no official confirmation of any figures.
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'We will not be lectured': Russia stands by Putin calling pro-Hitler Polish WWII ambassador a 'bastard and anti-Semitic pig'


RT
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:41 UTC
Adolf Hitler and Polish ambassador Jozef Lipski
© Getty Images/Heinrich HoffmannAdolf Hitler in conversation with Polish ambassador Jozef Lipski, January 1, 1935 (Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung)
Poland summoned the Russian ambassador in Warsaw to explain President Vladimir Putin's remarks about the anti-Semitism of the 1930s Polish ambassador to Germany. Moscow is refusing to budge from historical truth.

In a speech on Tuesday, Putin described Jozef Lipski, the Polish ambassador to Berlin (1934-39), as "a bastard and anti-Semitic pig." He based this on Lipski's own words from 1938, when the envoy told Hitler the Poles would "erect him a beautiful monument in Warsaw" if he carried out the plan to expel European Jews to Africa.

Warsaw responded on Friday by summoning Russian Ambassador Sergey Andreyev to the Foreign Ministry. After having a "harsh but diplomatic" discussion with the head of the Eastern Department, Andreyev said he stood by the president's statements as Russia's official position.

"We have something to say ourselves, on the topic of politics of history," Andreyev told reporters after the meeting.

Comment: Poland wanted to 'erect magnificent monument' to honor Hitler's plan to send Jews to Africa - Putin cites WWII archives
Vladimir Putin recalled the vicious developments that preceded the Second World War, in an address to the Defense Ministry board on Tuesday, telling his audience there was one particular fact in the archive files that touched him the most. Back in 1938, Adolf Hitler hosted the Polish Ambassador to Germany Jozef Lipski and shared with him a plan to send European Jews to Africa where they would surely perish, Putin said.

"The Ambassador in Poland replied, and then wrote it down in his cable to the Polish Foreign Minister: 'I told Hitler that, if he does, we will erect a magnificent monument to him in Warsaw'," the President quoted from the archive data, before turning somewhat emotional.
He was a bastard, an anti-Semitic pig, there's no other way of saying it. He fully agreed with Hitler in his anti-Semitic sentiments and, moreover, promised him he'd erect a monument in Warsaw to his abuse of the Jewish people. [...]

"It is these people who negotiated with Hitler back in the day, it is this sort of people that demolish monuments commemorating Red Army soldiers, who liberated European countries and peoples from the Nazis," the President concluded. "They are their followers."


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Arrow Up

Libyan National Army set for major battles in Tripoli after taking control of roads to airport


Sputnik
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
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© REUTERS / Esam Omran Al-Fetori
The Libyan National Army (LNA) announced on Friday that it had taken control of roads leading to the Tripoli airport and was set for major battles for main areas of the Libyan capital.

The news comes a day after information surfaced that the rival Tripoli-based government has officially requested military aid from Turkey.

"The LNA is advancing after violent clashes on roads that lead to the center of the capital. The GNA retreated leaving bodies lying on the road to Tripoli airport", the LNA wrote on Facebook, as quoted by Al Arabiya.

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Broom

Russian Orthodox Church cuts ties with Alexandria Patriarchate over recognition of Ukraine's breakaway church


RFE/RL
Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:18 UTC
Epifaniy
The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Epifaniy, was installed in February.
The Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa Patriarch Theodore II after he recognized the independence of Ukraine's church from Moscow.

Russia's Holy Synod also decided on December 27 to abolish the Exarchate of the Patriarchate of Alexandria in Moscow and convert it into a Russian church.

The Russian church's decision follows Theodore's recognition of the Ukrainian church during a service he held in Egypt in November.

The Patriarchate of Constantinople -- generally considered the spiritual headquarters for Orthodoxy -- granted the Orthodox Church of Ukraine independence in January, ending more than 300 years of control by Moscow.

Comment: The attempts by the West and its allies to sow division in the Orthodox Church have been successful in some respects and yet the attacks are also strengthening the existing bonds and exposing the puppets for who they really are: See also:

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Japan to send warship, aircraft to Middle East to protect vessels


Al Jazeera
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 10:45 UTC
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© Jason Reed/AFPA helicopter-equipped destroyer and two P-3C patrol planes will be dispatched to ensure safe passage for Japanese vessels through the region
Japan will send a warship and patrol planes to protect Japanese ships in the Middle East as the situation in the region, from which it sources nearly 90 percent of its crude oil imports, remains volatile, a document approved by the cabinet showed on Friday.

Under the plan, a helicopter-equipped destroyer and two P-3C patrol planes will be dispatched for information-gathering aimed at ensuring safe passage for Japanese vessels through the region.

If there are any emergencies, a special order would be issued by the Japanese defence minister to allow the forces to use weapons to protect ships in danger.

Comment: See also: Iran and China keep banking initiatives secret to evade US sanctions - Envoy

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