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#Vault7: CIA's 'Athena' anti-Windows malware 'better than bombing things'


RT
Fri, 19 May 2017 13:41 UTC
Windows phone
© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
The latest in WikiLeaks' series of #Vault7 leaks was released Friday detailing malware that provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers using several Microsoft Windows operating systems.

'Athena' is the latest codename for the release which consists of five documents.

In the user guide, the operating systems which can be targeted are: Windows XP Pro SP3 32-bit, Windows 7 32-bit/64-bit, Windows 8.1 32-bit/64-bit, Windows 2008 Enterprise Server, Windows 2012 Server, and Windows 10.

Once installed on a target computer, Athena will use a listening post to receive beacons from the operator, allowing it to signal and trigger additional malware payloads undetected on the target computer.
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Bad Guys

Pat Buchanan interview: It isn't Watergate yet, but how long can this sustain?

Alex Pfeiffer
The Daily Caller
Fri, 19 May 2017 13:10 UTC
pat buchanan
© Brendan Smialowski/Getty ImagesPat Buchanan speaks about Tim Russert to reporters outside NBC's bureau June 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. This week's Meet the Press show was a tribute to host Tim Russert who died at age 58 of a heart attack last week.
Pat Buchanan says the nonstop uproar following Trump's firing of former FBI director James Comey is not comparable to Watergate, but he does wonder if the Trump presidency can function with this level of drama.

Buchanan was a central figure in the Richard Nixon administration and just released "Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made And Broke a President and Divided America Forever." He spoke to The Daily Caller Wednesday about the Trump presidency and other topics.
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Strong and Stable? Eve of Tories' manifesto launch a 'complete disaster'

Ed Sykes
The Canary
Fri, 19 May 2017 12:05 UTC
UK England Britain Tories Labour Party Eletions
© Neil Hall / ReutersCampaigners stand during the unveiling of an election poster for Britain's opposition Labour Party in London, Britain May 11, 2017.
On 17 May, even Sky News had to admit that it had been a disastrous day for the Conservative Party. And on the eve of the party's manifesto launch, too.

Failure on three fronts

Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent for Sky News, insisted that parties often only make announcements if they've got a good story to tell. But the Conservatives apparently didn't on 17 May. Instead, Craig explained, they came out with a Cost of Corbyn dossier, in which they argued that Labour's manifesto had a massive black hole in it. This assertion, he said, was simply:
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Bad Guys

Paul Craig Roberts: The 'Unprecedented' Assault on Trump


Paul Craig Roberts
Fri, 19 May 2017 12:05 UTC
Donald Trump
© Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
We are witnessing an assault by the national security state and its liberal media on a President of the United States that is unprecedented.

Wild and unsupported accusations of treasonous or illegal Russian connections have been the mainstay of the news since Trump's campaign for president. These accusations have reached the point that there is an impeachment movement driven by the national security state and its liberal media and endorsed by Democrats, the American leftwing which has turned against the working class as "Trump deplorables," and luminaries such as Harvard Law Professor Larry Tribe. The Washington Post, which was not present at the meeting of President Trump with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, purports to know that Trump gave Lavrov US national security information.

The Russian government has offered the presstitute media a transcript of the meeting, but, of course, the pressitutes are not interested.
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Bad Guys

CIA docs reveal failed & 'sadistic' torture methods used on Guantanamo detainee

Ken Klippenstein, Joseph Hickman
Alter Net
Fri, 19 May 2017 12:03 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Suzette Laboy
Repeatedly waterboarded and confined in a small box, Zubaydah failed to provide any information of value.

It is early on in Abu Zubaydah's time at a CIA black site. He insists to his interrogators that he has no additional information on jihadist operations planned against the US, but his captor won't stop slapping him. Eventually a hood is placed over Zubaydah's head and he is placed into a confinement box by unseen security officers. He is told this is his new home until he's prepared to provide information on operations against the US.

Several physically stressful hours in the confinement box fail to elicit any intelligence, so Zubaydah's captors place him in an even smaller box. He makes painful groans and is forced to scoot out of the box on his hindquarters when he's finally allowed out. He is immediately made to stand and backed up against a wall. Two interrogators begin to double-team him with rapid-fire questions. Zubaydah is told that if he does not cooperate, he will only bring more misery on himself. Again he denies having any additional knowledge, but this time, he isn't slapped. Instead, Zubaydah is hooded and a water board is brought into the cell.
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Radar

U.S. paranoid that Russia & China will challenge their 'dominance of space'

Dave Majumdar
The National Interest
Fri, 19 May 2017 12:03 UTC
Navy Fleet

Comment: This entire article is premised on the paranoid assumption that the 'Beasts in the East' - both Russia and China - want nothing more than to 'challenge US military supremacy' and 'conquer the world'. However, on more than one occasion Russia has made overtures of peaceful cooperation towards America, especially in the war on terror. China's entire foreign policy now revolves around mutually beneficial economic development.

But the US has brutally rejected these overtures, thus ensuring a continued arms race, and in the last line of this article we see why: To ensure investment in America's 'military superiority' - a military industrial complex that thrives on destruction and that has run unchecked for far too long. This is why Trump has been targeted - there can be no rapprochement with Russia or China. Continued conflict, even the threat of total annihilation, is what the war machine thrives on.


Russia and China are actively pursuing new weapons and capabilities to counter America's dominance of space according a U.S. Intelligence Community assessment. Indeed, both nations are considering the development of weapons that could attack U.S. satellites and other space-based assets in orbit.

"We assess that Russia and China perceive a need to offset any U.S. military advantage derived from military, civil, or commercial space systems and are increasingly considering attacks against satellite systems as part of their future warfare doctrine," reads congressional testimony from Daniel Coats, director of National Intelligence on May 11. "Both will continue to pursue a full range of anti- satellite (ASAT) weapons as a means to reduce U.S. military effectiveness."
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Bad Guys

New documentary reveals most 'rebel-held' Syria is controlled by Al-Qaeda

RI Staff
Russia Insider
Fri, 19 May 2017 12:03 UTC
Al-Qaeda soldier
There is a great new documentary about life in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province that you should definitely watch start-to-finish.

Produced by the pan-Arab Akhbar al-Aan TV (financed by UAE) much of it was filmed secretly as reporters are regularly kidnapped in Idlib, or else pressured to tow the rebel line.

This makes it one of rare uncensored reports from rebel-held Syria.
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Chess

The Special Council Inquisition: Bad For Trump, Bad For America

b
Moon of Alabama
Fri, 19 May 2017 12:03 UTC
trump
© Joshua Roberts / Reuters
The Trump administration made a huge mistake by not preventing the just announced special council investigation into the alleged, but likely non-existing "Trump-Russia" connections:
The Justice Department appointed a special counsel Wednesday to investigate possible coordination between President Trump's associates and Russian officials — a clear signal to the White House that federal investigators will aggressively pursue the matter despite the president's insistence that there was no "collusion'' with the Kremlin.

Robert S. Mueller III, a former prosecutor who served as the FBI director from 2001 to 2013, has agreed to take over the investigation as a special counsel, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced. The move marks a concession by the Trump administration to Democratic demands for the investigation to be run independently of the Justice Department. Calls for a special counsel intensified after Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey last week.
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Control Panel

Google and Facebook fund 'fake news war rooms' to 'truthify' Western elections - UK next

Robert Booth
The Guardian
Fri, 19 May 2017 11:53 UTC
fake news war room
© Alicia Canter for the Guardian In the offices of 'Full Fact', workers scan the internet for fake news. Meanwhile, internet users scan the media for fake news... the war is on!
In cramped offices just a few hundred metres from Buckingham Palace, the crack troops of the war against fake news are on high alert.

Professional fact checkers, economists and statisticians are among 25 staff being part-funded by Google and Facebook to protect the UK election from fake news in an initiative run by Full Fact and First Draft, two fact-checking organisations, the latter battle hardened by tours of duty in the US and French elections.

One night this week they scanned the internet as usual for false reports and misleading claims about the election gathering traction on social media. A piece being shared thousands of times on Facebook about Jeremy Corbyn rang alarm bells.

"Corbyn confirms a Labour government would pay £92bn Brexit bill in full," ran the headline on an apparent news site called YourBrexit.co.uk.

Comment: As presented, this operation is fairly harmless, certainly less harmful than the spurious BS put out by Establishment media and government sources ("Saddam's missiles can reach the UK inside 45 minutes" being just one notorious example). What's overlooked by these do-gooders is the massive online sockpuppetry waged by the intelligence services for at least a decade, and confirmed by the Snowden leaks.

Anyway, they're losing the information war. The only real option left for their Masters is heavy election rigging.

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The Russian obsession goes back decades

Jacob G. Hornberger
Ron Paul Liberty Report
Thu, 18 May 2017 16:13 UTC
JFKennedy
© Unknown
Just consider the accusations that have been leveled at the president:
  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 Donald Trump?

No, President John F. Kennedy.
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