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WhatsApp sues Israel's NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world

Raphael Satter and Elizabeth Culliford
Reuters
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:08 UTC
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WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included diplomats, political dissidents, journalists and senior government officials.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, messaging service WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook Inc (FB.O), accused NSO of facilitating government hacking sprees in 20 countries. Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were the only countries identified.

WhatsApp said in a statement that 100 civil society members had been targeted, and called it "an unmistakable pattern of abuse."
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Bullseye

Woker than woke? Obama CANCELS 'call out' culture, tells Americans 'good people have flaws'


RT
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:47 UTC
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Cancel culture and "woke" political correctness has found a new and surprising critic in former US president Barack Obama, who warned American liberals about the folly of demanding ideological "purity" from everyone around them.

Speaking at his annual Obama Foundation summit on Tuesday, the former president blasted the current liberal trend toward 'calling out' and 'cancelling' anyone who says or does something which is not considered 'woke' enough for the modern age.
This idea of purity... and you're never compromised and you're always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly.
"The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws," he told attendees at the Chicago event.

Comment: Obama better be careful. He keeps it up, he'll be labeled alt-right by the Woke Left.

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Attention

Best of the Web: You have been warned: 'Woke lefties are the militant wing of neoliberalism'


Sp!ked Online
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:33 UTC
Brendan O’Neill
© Sp!ked OnlineBrendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked Online
Great work man!

The business class's desire for open borders is simple to understand; they want the cheapest labour possible, from wherever. Social solidarity is irrelevant. Capital has no roots, and no inherent sense of morality. Some call these people Anywheres - I call them Nowheres. 21st century capital is really no improvement on the 19th century Atlantic slave trade, in terms of its ultimate motivation. It is rather ironic then, that opposition to open borders and mass legal & illegal immigration is regularly referred to as racist.

Comment: Brendan O'Neill is one of the growing number of voices calling out 'woke' culture for the trojan horse it is. The sad part is, through at least two generations of dumbing-down through indoctrination passed off as "education", the vociferous hordes have no idea they are being weaponized to destroy all the rights they think they are fighting for.

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Road Cone

Disastrous tumble off stage leaves German economy minister hospitalized


RT
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:56 UTC
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© Global Look PressHelpers shield the view to the stage with a blanket after Economics Minister Peter Altmaier fell heavily on Tuesday.
A sure-footed captain with a steady hand at the wheel is seen as ideal to run a country's economy, so Germany's economy minister Peter Altmaier may struggle to pick himself up after his disastrous tumble from a stage on Tuesday.

Altmaier, who is Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, was rendered unconscious after he fell from the stage at a conference in Dortmund. The politician then regained consciousness and was chatting after his impromptu dive into the front row, but the full extent of the damage to his reputation has yet to be assessed.

The minister's unfortunate stumble came after concluding his remarks on a proposal for cloud-based data storage. He has thanked medics from the event who treated him and he is now recovering in hospital.

Comment: What's going on with politicians? We've seen Angela Merkel repeatedly shaking, the EU's Juncker is often stumbling around, seemingly drunk, meanwhile over in the US Hillary Clinton's health has been evidently deteriorating in multiple ways, and more recently we've had Joe Biden talking as though his brain is scrambled.

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Pirates

With me or Against me: George Soros says all his 'enemies' are wannabe dictators


RT
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
anti-Soros poster in Hungary
© Global Look / Martin Fejeranti-Soros poster in Hungary
In the world of billionaire financier George Soros, his critics are "would-be dictators" who will not succeed. Meanwhile, under Trump, the Open Society founder has been pouring greater sums into lobbying than ever before.

"I'm very proud of the enemies I have," he told the New York Times in an interview published Friday, in which he confidently predicted the popular opposition to his globalist philosophy was winding down and that a backlash against Trump-style nationalism was on the horizon.
It's a perfect way to tell a dictator or a would-be dictator, if he identifies me as an enemy.
Soros slammed the US president as "an aberration," predicting "what he has done in the Middle East" - clearing troops from the Turkish-Syrian border, allowing peace to break out with a deal between Russia and Turkey - "will contribute to his demise next year."

Comment: See also:

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Newspaper

Turkey-backed FSA hands over 11 villages to Russian military police per Ankara's request


Sputnik News
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
FSA army village handover to Russia
© Sputnik / Hikmet Durgun
The Free Syrian Army has abandoned 11 Syrian villages, situated along the M4 highway, ceding control to the Russian military police following Turkey's request, a source close to the FSA said on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, the Syrian armed forces demanded from FSA armed groups to leave 11 settlements in Ayn Issa area of Tal Abyad district and to hand them over to the Russian military police.

"The FSA groups have departed from these 11 villages per the request of Turkey's armed forces and handed them over to the Russian military police", the source said.

The Turkish military had informed the FSA that those settlements were not part of the safe zone's border, the source explained.

Comment: See also:

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Cult

SOTT Focus: Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq

Kathy Kelly
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:46 UTC
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Video stills (cropped) of Abu Bakr al-Bagdhadi and of a soldier torturing a prisoner at Abu Ghraib
Yesterday morning, President Trump announced the death of Abu Bakr Al- Baghdadi and three of his children.

President Trump said Al-Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS, was fleeing U.S. military forces, in a tunnel, and then killed himself by detonating a suicide vest he wore.

In 2004, Al-Baghdadi had been captured by U.S. forces and, for ten months, imprisoned in both Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca.

I visited Camp Bucca in January, 2004 when, still under construction, the Camp was a network of tents, south of Basra, in an isolated, miserable area of Iraq.
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Quenelle

How the 'Right' has won: Liberals need a new go-to insult for disruptors


RT
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:11 UTC
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© dpaAfD (Alternative for Germany) chairwoman Frauke Petry (L-R) and the chairwoman of the French Front National (FN) Marie Le Pen, representative of Italian Lega Nord, Matteo Salvini, and the chairman of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), Geert Wilders, on 21 January 2017.
Last weekend's electoral successes in Italy and Germany have given 'populist' parties just the boost they needed, while the MSM and others struggle to come to terms with new kids on the block.

There has been a subtle shift in the way that European election results are reported over the last year or so.

Once, the liberal insult of 'populist' explained everything. It explained why people were anti-European Union and the single currency; it explained why there were concerns about immigration from the East and Africa and it was loaded with meaning about education, ethnicity and cultural practices. It explained a lot.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's:

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Arrow Up

Denmark finally agrees to Nord Stream 2 pipeline

Todd Prince
RFE/RL
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:47 UTC
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Russia's state-owned gas monopoly, Gazprom, has completed almost 90 percent of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. (file photo)
Denmark has granted Russia's state-controlled energy company Gazprom permission to build a controversial gas export pipeline through Danish waters.

The October 30 approval removes the last major regulatory hurdle for Gazprom to complete its 1,230 kilometer Nord Stream 2 pipeline along the Baltic Sea floor from Russia to Germany.

The Danish decision puts greater pressure on U.S. Congress to quickly pass a sanctions bill to halt the project before it is completed.

Washington has opposed the project over concern it will increase Europe's dependence on Russian energy, boost the Kremlin's coffers for military adventures, and hurt Ukraine.

Comment: Of late everywhere from South America, the Middle East, Africa and many across Eurasia, have signalled that the future is in partnership with Russia and China, America's sanctions be damned:

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Network

How the Russian-Turkish 'safe zone' deal shapes course of Syrian conflict


South Front
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:41 UTC
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The military crisis in northeastern Syria started by the Turkish military offensive on Kurdish militias amid the US troops withdrawal deflated.

On October 23, Turkey, Russia and Syria started implementing the 'safe zone' agreement reached by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin a day earlier. Units of the Russian Military Police deployed in the border town of Kobani. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Syrian Army will establish a total of 15 observation posts on the Turkish-Syrian border to the east of the Euphrates. The next steps are the withdrawal of Kurdish YPG units and their heavy weapons from the agreed buffer zone and the start of joint Russian-Turkish patrols.

Meanwhile, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced that Operation Peace Spring in northeastern Syria does not need to be expanded and that there is no need to carry out any new operations because the main goals had been achieved. Turkish sources say that some YPG fighters, that they call "terrorists", may remain in the area, but do not expect large-scale military actions. Members of the Turkish-backed coalition of militant groups, the Syrian National Army, remain in the captured areas between Tell Abyad and Ras al-Ayn.

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