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SOTT Focus: Cambridge Analytica Under The Spotlight: Christopher Wylie Looks a Bit Too Much Like Dade From 1995 Classic 'Hackers'

Brently Kopopolous
Sott.net
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:25 UTC
Christopher Wylie
Uncanny resemblance? Left: Dade from the movie Hackers (1995) Right: Chris Wiley, Cambridge Analytica 'hacker' (2018)
By now I'm sure everyone has seen The Guardian's new RUSSIA-RUSSIA-RUSSIA piece entitled 'The Cambridge Analytica Files'. In it are the sordid details of how one then-24 year old computer programmer helped Steve Bannon - the most evil man in the world besides Putin and Trump - create a process to harvest Facebook data in order to build complex psychological profiles of the voting public, then used that information to manipulate voters, not only in the US but in the UK as well.

Informational Warfare, they called it, and while Information War is not new, the oldest reference being propaganda, today the methods have evolved. Guardian journalists Graham-Harrison and Cadwalladr did an especially good job of spinning the yarn; they even credited the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie as 'a master storyteller', which is of course what they are in fact doing via their article. Whether or not the story they tell is true, however, is certainly questionable.
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Kremlin: UK will have to back its Skripal allegations with evidence or apologize


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:33 UTC
skripal salisbury
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
The UK will either back up its claims of Moscow's involvement in the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, or it will have to apologize, the Kremlin spokesman has said.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday that Russia is wrong to deny responsibility for the nerve agent poisoning of Skripal. "The Russian denial is increasingly absurd," Johnson told reporters in Brussels. "This is a classic Russian strategy... they're not fooling anybody anymore," he added.

Peskov pulled no punches in fighting back, accusing the UK of "incomprehensible, unreasonable slander" against Moscow.

"Sooner or later, it will have to account for these baseless allegations, either by backing them up with evidence or by offering its apologies," the Russian president's spokesman said.
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Caesar

Putin gives fiery election victory speech in Moscow (Video)


Russia Insider / Youtube
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 09:06 UTC
Putin speech reelection
Sounds like he has big plans for the next 6 years.

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Eye 1

Cui bono? Someone wants to kill Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah

Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:01 UTC
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah
© Prime Minister Office/ApaimagesPalestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah
On March 13, while on his way to the besieged Gaza Strip, two 33-pounds bombs targeted the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah.

Hamdallah was visiting Gaza, through the Israeli border checkpoint, Erez, to open a large sewage treatment plant that, if allowed to operate regularly, will make life easier for hundreds of thousands of Gazans, who have endured a perpetual Israeli siege since 2006.

The Prime Minister's visit was also seen as another important step in the reconciliation efforts between the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah - led by PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, in the Occupied West Bank - and Hamas, led by former Prime Minister, Ismael Haniyeh, in Gaza.

Although reconciliation efforts have, for years, been half-hearted at best, the latest round of talks between both groups led to a breakthrough in Cairo last October. This time, Palestinians were told that the two factions are keen on establishing unity, ending the siege on Gaza and revamping the largely dormant Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) institutions.

Hamas and the Islamic Jihad were to join the PLO at some point in the future, leading to the formulation of a unified Palestinian political program.

And, perhaps, this keenness at ending the rift has led to the attempt on Hamdallah's life.

But who is Rami Hamdallah?

Comment: The assassination attempt is threatening the reconciliation of the different Palestinian factions. Cui bono? No prizes for guessing.

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Deep State double standards: What's genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump

Ben Shapiro
The Hill
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:01 UTC
Cambridge Analytical
© Bryan Bedder/Getty ImagesAlexander Nix, chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, at the Concordia Summit for public-private business partnerships in New York in September. The firm claimed to have developed psychographic profiles that could predict the political leanings of every American adult.
On Sunday, The Guardian reported on the supposedly nefarious workings of President Trump's data-gathering team at Cambridge Analytica. The report suggested that Cambridge Analytica had essentially issued questionnaires through a third party; those questionnaires, which were personality quizzes, requested that you use your Facebook login. Cambridge Analytica then compiled data regarding those who completed the quiz and cross-referenced that data with political preferences in order to target potential voters.

This isn't particularly shocking. In 2012, The Guardian reported that President Obama's reelection team was "building a vast digital data operation that for the first time combines a unified database on millions of Americans with the power of Facebook to target individual voters to a degree never achieved before."

What, exactly, would Obama be doing? According to The Guardian, Obama's new database would be gathered by asking individual volunteers to log into Obama's reelection site using their Facebook credentials. "Consciously or otherwise," The Guardian states, "the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page - home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends - directly into the central Obama database."

Comment:

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Gold Bar

The end of the dollar: The rush to gold is here

Alex Deluce
The Gold Telegraph
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 08:53 UTC
gold bars
The US dollar has been dominant as the global reserve currency for a century. It was backed by gold, and the phrase, "good as gold," had a literal meaning. Each dollar bill was worth its equivalent in physical gold. This made the dollar the world's most respected and accepted currency.

These days, the dollar is joined by the euro and the yen as accepted currencies. No longer dominant, the dollar is losing its global position. Can it survive?

Gold-backed money vs Fiat Currency

Comment: It is only a matter of time for the US empire to collapse due to the contradictions of the global economic system it leads. If Russia and China manage to avoid the trap of a direct confrontation, eventually these reemerging powers will naturally find themselves at the top.

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Attention

Coming: The collusion bloodbath

Kevin McCullough
Townhall
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 12:01 UTC
DripBlood
© KJN/Elizabeth Mueller
The firing of Andrew McCabe, the discovery of his "private notes," the ill-tempered response by other Obama loyalists and a yet to be disclosed Inspector General's report on an investigation that began before Donald Trump had come to office are all pieces of a story that dwarfs the still absent evidence of anything Trump and company did to cooperate with Russians in changing votes in Michigan and Wisconsin.

So many Democrats and Republicans have asserted the lack of evidence in the Russian collusion issue its become comical if not annoying to endure as the uninformed continue to argue otherwise.

But few have had interest in addressing a separate issue that demands attention. For while the Russians attempted mass chaos, the more serious scandal appears to have covered up criminal behavior, illicit manipulation of the FISA process, and an attempt to undo the quite serious results of an election. Is there anything more sacred in our representative republic?

The scandal that goes mostly unmentioned began before the election had even occurred, but appears to have continued well past the final results of election night, with one candidate winning 30 of 50 states, and racking up a 304 to 227 victory in the electoral college.

A victory that looks increasingly historic in light of what increasingly appears to be the collusion of the then current administration with one campaign, and in instance after instance attempting to push their thumb on the scale of the outcome.

Comment: The Democrats - in collusion with govt agencies - who masterminded the (so far unsuccessful) manipulation of the 2016 election, have the only profile that fits election corruption: 'Demogate'

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Attention

Trump: Mueller probe has 'massive conflicts of interest'


RT
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:28 UTC
Mueller
© Newsy NewsSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller
US President Donald Trump has again used Twitter to take aim at special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into alleged collusion between his 2016 campaign and Russia. Trump tweeted Monday morning that the Mueller probe is a "total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest!"

The tweet sparked another flurry of speculation that Trump is planning to fire Mueller, despite assurances from his legal team at the weekend that the president is "not considering or discussing" firing the special counsel.

The tweet came about an hour after another in which Trump praised Fox News host Sean Hannity for his "great" performance on the channel's morning show Fox & Friends.

Hannity used his appearance on the show to claim there "never was any Trump-Russia collusion" and to lambaste the "fake news media" that Trump himself routinely criticizes. Hannity also said that Hillary Clinton and some FBI and Justice Department officials should be investigated and prosecuted for the "many crimes" they have committed. Left-wing, pro-Clinton media watchdog Media Matters said Trump's comments on Hannity's appearance shed light on the "feedback loop" between the Trump administration and Fox News.

Comment: See also:

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Putin's primary objective of his new presidential term


RT
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:18 UTC
Putin
© stripes.comRussian President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that raising the standard of living will be a key task in the coming years, but also acknowledged the importance of strengthening the nation's defenses.
"The main thing that we will be working on is of course the internal agenda. First of all we must ensure the growth rate for the economy and make it an innovative one. We must develop healthcare, education, industrial production, infrastructure and other branches that are crucial for moving our country forward and increasing the living standards of our citizens,"
Putin said in a Monday meeting with people in senior positions at his election headquarters.
"Workforce productivity is a key issue. Let us work on this agenda together!" he said. "Of course, there are also issues connected with the national defense and security, we cannot do without them, but still the internal agenda is of primary importance today," the president added.
Putin also promised that those who worked in his election HQ would take an active part in discussions of Russia's future development.
"As for the defense expenditures, we have slated their decrease for this year and for the next year. This will not cause any problems for our defense capability, because the main investments into the development of the newest weapons systems have been made over the previous years," Putin told his key supporters. "We just need to bring some things to their logical conclusion, to continue the research and development that I have not spoken about yet," he added. "There will be no increase in spending, no arms race. We have everything, we have secure reserves in this field," the president concluded.
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Chess

US war plans - Kurdish land bridge to Israel and the British support for war against Russia

Petri Krohn
The Duran
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:30 UTC
Pipelines in the sand
Russia, Turkey and the United States have come to a tacit agreement that the final settlement of the Syrian civil war will include population transfers, where isolated problem populations are "ethnically cleansed" and moved to larger, economically and logistically more viable larger enclaves.

The relationship of these "cantons" to each other and to the Syrian state will be a matter for the political peace negotiations.

The United States did not protest the ethnical cleansing of Afrin of its almost exclusively Kurdish population. These Kurds are needed to strengthen the US occupation zone east of the Euphrates. America nor Israel has any use for Afrin, especially since dreams of a Kurdish or ISIS corridor to the Mediterranean have permanently been curtailed.

On the other hand, the US has shown its willingness to massacre hundreds of Syrians and Russians to demonstrate its ownership of some key points of Syrian geography. The locations of these points of contention might reveal a grand geopolitical scheme of the US and its allies.

Comment: See also: Israel quietly begins practicing for possible war with Russia and Iran in Syria

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