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UN's North Korea sanctions experts investigating possible violations targeted by 'sustained' hack attack - report


RT
Tue, 23 May 2017 19:49 UTC
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A UN panel of experts investigating possible violations of North Korean sanctions have fallen victim to a "sustained" hack attack launched by unknown perpetrators who were perfectly aware of what the experts were looking for.

In a warning email sent to UN officials and the Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee - also known as the 1718 committee - the panel chair described the hack attack as part of a "sustained cyber campaign," according to Reuters, which has seen the document.

The chair of the expert panel said a zip file containing a "highly personalized message" had been sent to one of the investigators, "which shows the hackers have a very detailed insight into the panel's current investigations structure and working methods."

"As a number of 1718 committee members were targeted in a similar fashion in 2016, I am writing to you all to alert you to this heightened risk," the panel chair wrote in an email sent out on May 8.
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Best of the Web: Duterte: The 'US, EU meddle in other countries and kill people under guise of human rights concerns'


RT
Mon, 22 May 2017 08:44 UTC
President Duterte
© Inquirer Global Nation"Do not corrupt them with drugs. Do not destroy their minds."
"There's not even a whimper" when powerful nations bomb civilians or "invent" WMDs to invade other countries, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte told RT, arguing that the West pretends to care about human rights only when it suits its agenda.

The Philippines leader sat down to speak with RT's Maria Finoshina ahead of his five-day visit to Moscow that is kicking off on Monday.

Maria Finoshina: Mr. President, it has been almost a year since your inauguration. Have you faced anything that you were not expecting when you took office?

Rodrigo Duterte: I did expect almost everything that came my way. I've been a politician for almost 40 years - excluding the term now. So I would say that on the national front I was kept informed all the time by the news and, of course, by sources in government. But I never realized the magnitude of the contamination of the Filipinos in so far as drugs are concerned.

When I became president and everything was available to me for information, I was almost appalled. I didn't know that we have reached millions of contaminated. So, when I was mayor, I said, do not destroy my city. And do not destroy the young people of Davao City, because they are our assets. We are not rich. Most of us are poor. And we depend on our sons and daughters to feed us when we get old. We do not have any housing here for - few and between. And we need our children to buy the medicines, pay the hospitals, pay for our burial.

Do not corrupt them with drugs. Do not destroy their minds. And I said, "because I will kill you." I was very clear with that. Do not destroy my country. Do not destroy our young people, because if you do that, I will kill you. And when I became president, I said, "Do not destroy the Filipino youth. I'm the president, I'm supposed to take care of them." There are so many criminals walking around. They stopped it when I said that. When I was mayor, I told them: "I'm not a policeman but I build the city as mayor." As president now, I am not a wholesale violator of human rights. I'm not the police - I just give orders. But I build the country.


Comment: President Duterte: A rare combo of insightfulness and common sense.

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Ron Paul's warning to Trump: Disobey the deep state and you will end up like JFK

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 22 May 2017 00:00 UTC
Paul/Trump/Kennedy
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Former Congressman Ron Paul opined about President Trump's alleged involvement with Russia. Paul equated Trump's relationship with Russia to assassinated President John F. Kennedy's attempts to extend the olive branch to the USSR, a move which got him killed, according to some.

Presumably in light of Thursday's call for impeachment of the president by Representative Al Green (D-TX), and with the appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special prosecutor to investigate dubious claims the president and his campaign colluded with Russia to undermine the election of 2016, Paul posted a message to Facebook, which reads:
Which President had the following accusations cast against him:

1) He has betrayed the Constitution, which he swore to uphold.
2) He has committed treason by befriending Russia and other enemies of America.
3) He has subjugated America's interests to Moscow.
4) He has been caught in fantastic lies to the American people, including personal ones, like his previous marriage and divorce.

President Trump?

No, it was President Kennedy.

Comment: While there may be some parallels between Trump and JFK, remaining to be seen, what Paul is really saying is that Trump doesn't have to actually have done anything...as in really passed classified information to Russia...he just has to be in circumstances that could be construed, albeit falsely, to have done so. The excuse is proof enough for him to be in the CIA's crosshairs. One more innocent step could be the trigger. The means to peace do not justify these ends.

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Labour surging in polls thanks to media finally giving Jeremy Corbyn impartial coverage

Matt Zarb-Cousin
The Independent
Mon, 22 May 2017 19:45 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
© GettyJeremy Corbyn has seen his likeability increase since the election was called
It's conventional for polls to swing to the government during a general election campaign, but Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party has absolutely no respect for historical trends. Labour is up seven points in three weeks, halving the Conservative lead, with the fall-out from the proposed "dementia tax" still to be fully factored in, U-turns included.

There are two reasons for this. Firstly, the public tends to only engage with politics during a general election campaign. Very few people follow all the twists and turns of Westminster in their day to day lives. They might pick up the odd bit of information, often through the prism of a right wing tabloid press which usually sets the agenda, but as we near 8 June and people have to make their minds up about who to vote for, a lot more attention will be paid to what the parties are saying. This is why a link to Labour's very popular manifesto went viral on Facebook last week.

It is also interesting how Labour's poll bounce coincides with general election broadcast rules kicking in. The public are finally seeing that Jeremy Corbyn is not the person he has been portrayed as in sections of the right wing press, although some broadcasters still insist on using the pejorative term "hard left", which is somewhat at odds with polling that indicates the public supports the policies in the Labour manifesto.

Labour under Jeremy Corbyn isn't hard left - it's mainstream.

Comment: Political Timing of Manchester Terror Attack is Suspicious

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Duterte declares martial law on Philippines island amid ISIS-linked attacks


RT
Tue, 23 May 2017 18:04 UTC
Filipino police
© Erik de Castro / AFPFile photo
Militants affiliated with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) have launched an attack on the city of Marawi in the Philippines, prompting President Rodrigo Duterte to declare martial law in the southern province.

Insurgents from the Maute group, Islamist extremists from the southern island of Mindanao, have been involved in clashes with government forces and the area is now on lockdown, according to Philippines authorities.

Comment: ISIS apparently is not pleased with Duterte's visit to strengthen ties with Russia. But while Duterte may be on his way back to the Philippines early, members of his team will stay behind in Russia to finalize all the planned agreements. Pictures from Marawi:
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Losers, evil losers: Trump just gave ISIS their new name

Scott Adams
Scott Adams' Blog
Tue, 23 May 2017 19:15 UTC
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President Trump just gave ISIS its new name: Losers. (Short for Evil Losers).

If you think that's no big deal, you're wrong. It's a big deal. This is - literally - weapons-grade persuasion from the most powerful Master Persuader of our time.

As I have taught you in this blog, President Trump's clever nicknames for people are not random. They are deeply engineered for visual impact and future confirmation bias.

In this case, the visuals will be provided by future terror attacks. That reinforces the "evil" part, obviously. But more importantly, the Losers will be doing nothing but losing on the battlefield from now until "annihilation." They are surrounded, and the clock is ticking. Oh, and the press isn't allowed to watch the final battles. In other words, we won't need to build new holding cells on Guantanamo Bay this time. No press means no prisoners, if you know what I mean. (American soldiers won't be shooting the prisoners. We have allies for that sort of thing.)

As you know, "annihilation" of the Losers in Loserdom won't stop the loser's ideas from spreading. You still have to kill the ideas. And that takes persuasion, not bullets. President Trump just mapped out the persuasion solution: Evil Losers.
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Trump boxed-in? Washington Post and New York Times urge pullback on calls for Trump impeachment

Patrick Martin
World Socialist Web Site
Mon, 22 May 2017 18:06 UTC
Donald Trump
In editorials published simultaneously for their Sunday editions, the New York Times and the Washington Post called for caution in the anti-Trump campaign they have been spearheading with claims of nefarious connections between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government.

The Times editorial, headlined "Watergate? We're Not There Yet," cites comparisons between the crisis of the Trump administration and the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon 43 years ago, only to suggest that impeachment or forced resignation is not yet the order of the day.

After repeatedly slamming Trump as a stooge of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a threat to US national security, including the publication last week of an editorial with comparisons to Watergate, the Times now counsels the Democrats to proceed cautiously and avoid "distraction." It advises leveraging the official investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, along with the continuing decline in Trump's poll numbers, to "win back a majority next year in at least one house of Congress" in the 2018 mid-term elections.

The Washington Post editorial similarly suggests that the anti-Trump campaign "will require time," both for newly appointed special counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI director, and for the various House and Senate committees investigating alleged Russian intervention into the 2016 election.

Comment: Trump has only been President for a few months and already he has changed his tune on many of the things he proclaimed during the election campaign. He was supposed to be the champion of the people. He has had to deal with a continuous and virulent attack from the establishment and deep state through the controlled media, especially when it comes to the false accusations of collusion with Russia. This has been done to bring him in line with their twisted vision and plans. The appointment of special counsel can in effect act as a constant threat and Sword of Damocles over his head in case he acts independently and veers from such plans.

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US-led coalition kills record number of Syrian civilians, says terrorist-affiliated SOHR


PressTV
Tue, 23 May 2017 18:15 UTC
Syria airstrike
© AP Photo/ Bram Janssen
A coalition of military forces allegedly fighting Daesh and other terror groups in Syria under the leadership of the United States have killed the highest number of civilians in a matter of one month since it began three years ago.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group mostly advocating anti-government forces in the war in Syria, said on Tuesday that the US-led coalition killed a total of 225 civilians between April 23 and May 23, the highest 30-day toll since the campaign began in 2014.

"There has been a very big escalation ... The past month of operations is the highest civilian toll since the coalition began bombing Syria," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.

Comment: Civilians being killed by the US-led coalition have largely been under-reported both by western media as well as by the SOHR, which is a sham PR organization similar to the White Helmets. Seems the US relationship with Syrian terrorists may be on the rocks.

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Theresa May disgraced in social care U-turn, election campaign falls into disarray


PressTV
Tue, 23 May 2017 17:46 UTC
Theresa May forward together
© AFP Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at the launch of the Scottish manifesto by Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson in Edinburgh on May 19, 2017.
The election campaign of British Prime Minister Theresa May has fallen into disarray after she announced a U-turn on the Conservative Party's social care policy.

May made a reversal on her policy on social care costs, strangely branded as the "dementia tax," but she claimed that "nothing has changed" since her party's manifesto was published on Thursday.

The prime minister said she made some clarifications about her policy in response to Labour Party leader's Jeremy Corbyn's "fake claims."

"Since my manifesto was published, the proposals have been subject to fake claims made by Jeremy Corbyn. The only things he has left to offer in this campaign are fake claims, fear and scaremongering," she said on Monday while launching the Welsh Tory manifesto in Wrexham, Wales.
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UKIP member favors increased anti-terror cooperation with Russia after Manchester attack


Sputnik
Tue, 23 May 2017 17:54 UTC
police cordon Manchester Arena
© AFP 2017/Oli Scarff
A UKIP member encourages closer cooperation between Russia and the UK on fighting terrorism amid the deadly attack in the UK city of Manchester, in a comment to Sputnik on Tuesday.

Nigel Sussman, a member of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) encourages closer cooperation between Russia and the United Kingdom on fighting terrorism following the deadly attack in the UK city of Manchester, in a comment to Sputnik on Tuesday.

Comment: Political Timing of Manchester Terror Attack is Suspicious

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