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CIA sources to Fox News on leaks - "There's heavy s*** coming down"


iBankCoin
Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:11 UTC
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Everything that Wikileaks has revealed over the past year has hurt both the integrity and honor of the United States. The question you have to grapple with, is it well deserved? After all, living inside of a vast and powerful empire has its benefits. As the empire expands, so does the wealth of its citizens. But it hasn't worked out that way, has it? The CIA deep staters have turned their guns on the people they serve — using third world banana republic tactics to silence opposition, take down regimes not beholden to their world view, using advanced technology to both spy and monitor on American citizens — infringing on our civil rights like nothing we've ever seen before.

The reason for the populist uprising and the lack of equanimity amongst those traditionally supportive of the CIA lies in the improper distribution of the spoils of war. There aren't any. All the average American has received from $10 trillion in Obama inspired deficit spending is American casualties of war, jobs lost to cheaper labor overseas, expensive oil prices, expensive healthcare, and run away education costs — along with a sundry of social disturbances that have people fed up.
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Evo Morales rejects imperialist drug policy with controversial new law


telesur
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:41 UTC
Evo Morales
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Bolivian President Evo Morales said the new law "was a historic day" for the country, where imperialistic drug policy has attempted to divide Bolivians.

Amid decades of prohibitionist international drug policy spearheaded by the U.S., Bolivia has further advanced its progressive drug policy by increasing its legal cultivation of coca leaves from 12,000 hectares to 22,000. The move will not only cut out the illicit trade of the plant, but also ensure the Andean nation's traditional connection to coca.

Wearing a necklace made of coca leaves, President Evo Morales - a former coca farmer himself - said he was proud of the new law after he signed it into effect on Wednesday morning in the government palace in La Paz.

Comment: This new law reinforces Morales' war against western capitalism: US Drug War benefits US capitalism says Bolivian president Evo Morales

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Tip of the iceberg: Wikileaks CIA data dump accounts for less than one percent of Vault 7 documents received


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:55 UTC
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WikiLeaks' data dump on Tuesday accounted for less than one percent of 'Vault 7', a collection of leaked CIA documents which revealed the extent of its hacking capabilities, the whistleblowing organization has claimed on Twitter.

'Year Zero', comprising 8,761 documents and files, was released unexpectedly by WikiLeaks. The organization had initially announced that it was part of a larger series, known as 'Vault 7.'

However, it did not give further information on when more leaks would occur or on how many series would comprise 'Vault 7'.

The leaks have revealed the CIA's covert hacking targets, with smart TVs infiltrated for the purpose of collecting audio, even when the device is powered off.
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Laura Ingraham: Wikileaks evidence could be "really damning" for CIA if true - "Are they accountable to anybody?"


Fox News
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:44 UTC
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Laura Ingraham joined Sean Hannity tonight to react to a bombshell WikiLeaks release that allegedly reveals the "entire hacking capacity of the CIA."

According to purported internal CIA documents, the agency uses high-tech phones and televisions to spy on people worldwide.

To hide its operations, the CIA routinely adopted hacking techniques that enabled them to appear as if they were hackers in foreign countries, such as Russia, WikiLeaks alleged.

"It's really damning if it's true," Ingraham said.


Comment: Here's the answer to Ingraham's questions. Yes, it's true that the CIA is spying on everyone using all forms of technology and is working in cahoots with tech companies like Google, Facebook, Samsung and Apple. And no, the CIA is not accountable to anybody. They are an entity unto themselves, with a huge amount of black budget funds gained from illicit drug and weapons sales. They don't answer to anyone, not the executive branch nor the judicial or legislative branch. As the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely. That much is made starkly clear with recent leaks of the CIA surveillance state.

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Yanis Varoufakis: Austerity is a cover story for conducting class warfare against the poor

Jon Stone
The Independent
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:23 UTC
Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis
Austerity and deficit reduction are being used as a cover-story for conducting class war against the poor, an economics professor who served as Greece's finance minister has said.

Yanis Varoufakis noted simultaneous reductions in taxes on the wealthy and cuts to spending on social security amounted to a redistribution of wealth away from the poor to the rich.

"The problem is that austerity is being used as a narrative to conduct class war," Mr Varoufakis told the BBC's Question Time programme.

"To be talking about reducing the state further when effectively what you are doing is reducing taxes like inheritance tax and at the same time you are cutting benefits - that is class war."
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Moscow accuses Ukraine of misleading The Hague, denies terrorism and racial discrimination claims


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:55 UTC
International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands
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Russia has rejected accusations of financing terrorism and discriminating against Ukrainians and Tatars in Crimea during hearings in a lawsuit brought by Ukraine in The Hague. Moscow says Kiev is twisting facts and using the trial for political gain.

The Russian delegation at the hearings, which were launched by the International Court of Justice on March 6 and are set to continue until Thursday, argued that the real purpose of the litigation initiated by Ukraine is to entangle the UN court in matters that lie outside its jurisdiction.

"The first goal is to draw the panel into the discussion of the issues that should be tackled by Russia and Ukraine and are clearly outside the court's competence, such as sovereignty, territorial integrity and the right to self-determination," Russian Foreign Ministry Legal Department director Roman Kolodkin said, as cited by TASS.
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Top Russian general blasts "reckless" UK NATO Commanders who seek conflict when they should be cooperating


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:21 UTC
General Vladimir Shamanov
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A top Russian general speaking to RT, blasted what he called "reckless" and "unprofessional" British commanders, and called for the two countries to start talking.

General Vladimir Shamanov, the head of the Defense Committee in the Russian Duma, called for the restoration of dialogue between Russia and the UK, while accusing a number of British generals of sabre-rattling.

Speaking to RT, Shamanov said he believes it is important that Britain and Russia work together in counter-terrorism and against drug trafficking, but only on the basis of mutual respect.

Cooperation was suspended by the UK government in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis.
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"Year Zero": Wikileaks reveals how CIA uses malware to weaponize consumer products


Sputnik
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:31 UTC
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WikiLeaks' exposure of CIA hacking tools and practices has raised a number of issues. It appears that by weaponizing malware, viruses, Trojans, remote control systems and secretly exploiting the vulnerabilities of popular software and hardware, the CIA's hacking division has crossed the red line.

The latest WikiLeaks exposure has given both enterprises and ordinary consumers of IT products the shivers.

While former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's revelations shed light on the extent of US global surveillance, the WikiLeaks files offer an inside peek at how the intrusion has been carried out.

WikiLeaks' "Year Zero" document collection has introduced "the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of 'zero day' weaponized exploits against a wide range of US and European company products, include Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones."
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China urges N. Korea to halt nuclear and missile tests to prevent 'head-on collision' with US


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:34 UTC
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Beijing has called on North Korea to suspend its nuclear and missile activities to avoid a "head-on collision" with the US and South Korea. In exchange, Washington and Seoul should halt drills, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said.

"To defuse the looming crisis on the (Korean) peninsula, China proposes that as a first step, the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea] may suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the halt of the large-scale US-ROK [Republic of Korea, or South Korea] exercises," the Chinese official said at a press conference.

"The two sides are like two accelerating trains coming towards each other with neither side willing to give way. The question is: Are the two sides really ready for a head-on collision? Our priority now is to flash the red light and apply the brakes on both trains," Wang added.
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Former Trump adviser Roger Stone: Wiretapping at Trump Tower 'a bigger scandal than Watergate'


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 11:39 UTC
U.S. President Donald Trump
© Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
It may happen that Barack Obama and members of his administration are dragged before a grand jury and questioned under oath about what they knew about these break-ins, Roger Stone, former Trump adviser, told RT's Worlds Apart host, Oksana Boyko.

This week, President Trump demanded a probe into unsubstantiated allegations he made that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Roger Stone sat down with Oksana Boyko to talk about this latest bit of US political drama, as well as many other compelling issues.

(Watch the full interview with the former Trump adviser on Worlds Apart this Thursday).

On charges of Russia interfering in US elections

"I think it's important to note that the intelligence services here have yet to produce any evidence or proof whatsoever of Russian meddling in the American election. What we have are "allegations;" what we have are "projections" and "assessments."

Let me review for you the assessments of the Central Intelligence Agency. They said there was no torture in American prisons during the Iraq War. That was a lie. They denied that there were renditions by foreign nationals by the US government during the Iraq War. That was a lie. They claimed that the attack on our mission in Benghazi was caused by a video that was shown one time in Turkey. That was a lie.
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