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Australia subject to increased cyber attacks by 'foreign entity' - PM

Colin Brinsden
LakesMail.au
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:04 UTC

China is likely behind the cyber attacks on Australia's private and public organisations.

China is likely behind the sophisticated cyber attacks on Australia's private and public organisations, experts say, but political leaders in Canberra are refusing to point the finger.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed Australia has been the target of increased cyber attacks by a foreign entity.

"We know it is a sophisticated, state-based cyber actor because of the scale and nature of the targeting, and the tradecraft used," Mr Morrison said on Friday.

But he declined to say which country was behind the attacks.

Asked if it was China, Mr Morrison said: "The Australian government is not making any public attribution about these matters.

US and Russia to hold New START talks next week, China declines invite

RFE/RL
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 04:26 UTC

FILE PHOTO: U.S. envoy Marshall Billingslea, who will travel to Austria next week for arms control talks

The United States says disarmament talks between its top arms control negotiator and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov will take place next week in Austria.

U.S. envoy Marshall Billingslea will travel to Austria on June 22-23 to meet with Ryabkov "on mutually agreed topics related to the future of arms control," the State Department said in a statement on June 19.

The statement also said the United States has extended an invitation to China to join the discussions, "and has made clear the need for all three countries to pursue arms control negotiations in good faith."

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for China to join the United States and Russia in talks on a nuclear arms control agreement to replace the 2010 New START accord (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).

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John Kerry warns of revolution if Trump re-elected

Kristinn Taylor
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

Former Obama Secretary of State John Kerry warned of revolution if President Trump is reelected and voters believe the election was not fair. Kerry made the remarks Friday morning in a virtual Copenhagen Democracy Summit appearance with former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen who was also the former prime minister of Denmark and Australian reporter Ryan Heath with Politico.

In response to a follow-up question by an observer after Heath asked Kerry about his experience losing the 2004 presidential election and whether he thinks Trump would leave office "in the manner we've been accustomed" should he lose in November, Kerry likened the potential unrest in reaction to a Trump victory to the 1770s American Revolution where British colonists waged a war for independence from Great Britain. Kerry also compared the unrest in 2020 to 1968 where the U.S. saw assassinations, riots and the burning of cities across the county.

Comment: Sounds like Kerry is projecting some of his own party's intentions and making some veiled threats here - especially when one considers that it is the Dems who have been trying to steal the election with various new mail-in policies (among other things). And Dem-aligned celebrities who have been spouting hateful life-threatening images and rhetoric against Trump over the last three years.

The Muslim Brotherhood, auxiliaries of the Pentagon

Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet.org
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:20 UTC

This article is an extract from the book Fake wars and big lies.

The Islamists controlled by the Pentagon

At the beginning of the 1990's, the Pentagon decided to work with the Islamists, who had hitherto depended only on the CIA. This was operation Gladio B, by reference to the secret services of NATO in Europe (Gladio A [1]). For a decade, all the Islamist chiefs - including Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri - travelled on aircraft of the US Air Force. The United Kingdom, Turkey, and Azerbaidjan participated in the operation [2]. As a direct result, the Islamists - who had so far been secret combatants - were publicly integrated into the NATO forces.

Saudi Arabia - which is both a state and the private property of the Saud family - officially became the company charged with the management of world Islamism. In 1992, the King proclaimed a Fundamental Law, which stated

"The state protects Islamic Law and applies the Sharia. It imposes Good and fights Evil. It obeys the duties of Islam (...) The defence of Islamism, of society and of the Muslim homeland is the duty of every subject of the King".

In 1993, Charles, the Prince of Wales, placed the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies under his patronage, while the head of the Saudi secret services, Prince Turki, took over its direction.

From dodgy dossiers to the sacking of Whitlam, the British Empire is revealed

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

In my last article, I reviewed the case of Gough Whitlam's firing at the hands of the Queen's Governor General Sir John Kerr during a dark day in November 1975 which mis-shaped the next 45 years of Australian history. Today I would like to tackle another chapter of the story.

I used to believe as many do, in a story called "the American Empire". Over the last decade of research, that belief has changed a bit. The more I looked at the top down levers of world influence shaping past and present events that altered history, the hand of British Intelligence just kept slapping me squarely in the face at nearly every turn.

Who controlled the dodgy Steele dossier that put Russiagate into motion and nearly overthrew President Trump? British Intelligence.

How about the intelligence used to justify the bombing of Iraq? That was British Intelligence too.

How about the Clash of Civilizations strategy used to blow up the middle east over decades? That just so happened to be British Intelligence's own Sir Bernard Lewis.

How about the CFR takeover over of American foreign policy during the 20th century? That is the British Roundtable Movement in America (created as Britain's Chatham House in America in 1921).

Who did Kissinger brag that he briefed more than his own State Department at a May 10, 1981 Chatham House seminar? The British Foreign Office (1).

The environmental Nakba: Palestine under Israeli colonization

Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Mohammed A. Abusarhan
Quds News Network
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

Prior to the 1948 war and even the Zionist Congress of 1897, Palestine had some thirteen hundred villages and towns, each with a small and manageable population living sustainably with nature. The land was owned or worked by the Palestinian people, who were 85 percent Muslim, 9.2 percent Christian, and 5.3 percent Jewish. This structure changed radically when mostly European Jews mobilized for massive migration to Palestine and began to assume colonial control over the land. In its long recorded history, Palestine has indeed undergone significant environmental and demographic changes, but it is really only in the past century that these changes took on a colonial dimension. The best-known of these changes is the forcible removal of the indigenous population, which reached its peak between 1948 and 1950. During those years, five hundred villages and towns were destroyed by Zionist militias, resulting in the largest wave of refugees after the Second World War. But the environmental dimensions of the catastrophe, or Nakba, is little talked about. In 1967 Israel occupied the remaining 22 percent of historic Palestine, namely Gaza and the West Bank, and built settlements throughout these occupied territories in contravention of to international law (the Fourth Geneva Convention). These dramatic transformations were detrimental to the people and nature of Palestine. Here, we focus on the environment and sustainability in Palestine, an often overlooked casualty of the colonial occupation.

BDS progresses: Gives Israel a black eye; legal blow to pro-Israel lobby

Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 01:00 UTC

The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights campaigners by French courts for BDS protests they staged more than a decade ago.

In September 2009 and May 2010, the group of 11 activists entered a supermarket in Illzach, a town in north-east France, wearing t-shirts bearing the words "Boycott Israel". They chanted slogans and passed out flyers urging shoppers not to buy Israeli goods, and also asked them to sign a petition requesting the supermarket chain to stop stocking such products altogether. Their actions were entirely peaceful, so much so that the company did not even file any legal charges against them.

However, the public prosecutor took a different view and launched a case against the activists, claiming that they had incited "hatred or discrimination" by calling for a boycott of Israel. This was, of course, entirely spurious. And entirely political, because France's Minister of Justice had ordered local prosecutors to go after BDS activists. They were sentenced in French courts to pay punitive fines and costs. It was an object lesson in "justice" against the "crime" of standing up for equality and human rights.

Now, after a long legal struggle, the French BDS activists have been vindicated completely. The tables have been turned, and France has been ordered to pay each of the activists about €7,000 in damages, plus their legal costs.

Comment: Israel conflates the pushback against BDS with an anti-Semitism stigma, a double punch. Deflection has always been Israel's signature move. There is a lot of ground to be made up if the BDS movement is to achieve its goals.

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California's Governor Newsom declares facemasks mandatory in public

Vanessa Romo
NPR.org
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 06:30 UTC

Comment: Submit, or else...

Californians are required to wear face coverings in high-risk settings as the state continues to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the statewide order on Thursday. It follows new guidance from the California Department of Public Health that asymptomatic or presymptomatic people can still spread the disease.

Newsom told Los Angeles' ABC7:

"Our numbers are going up, not going down. Hospitalization numbers are just starting to creep back up, and I'm very concerned by what we're seeing. We think the most impactful thing we can do, short of going back to a stay-at-home order, is wearing face coverings when we can't practice physical distancing."

In the latest guidance, the Department of Public Health explained, "The use of face coverings by everyone can limit the release of infected droplets when talking, coughing, and/or sneezing, as well as reinforce physical distancing."

People will be required to wear masks or other coverings in public spaces, including while taking public transportation, seeking medical care, shopping and in most work scenarios.

'Deplorables' redux: Susan Rice says Trump's supporters in Senate belong 'to the trash heap of history'

Morgan Phillips
Fox News
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:21 UTC

Susan Rice, former Obama administration national security adviser and potential VP pick for Joe Biden, said on Friday that President Trump's supporters in the Senate belong "to the trash heap of history."

Speaking on MSNBC about Biden's vice presidential decision, Rice said this election is about "getting Joe Biden in the White House," someone who could "remove Donald Trump and consign those who supported him in the Senate to the trash heap of history." Rice said Biden was someone who could "heal and unify the nation."

Comment: Susan Rice plays the race card on MSNBC in a bid to polish her potential VP credentials:

Some are not impressed:

Susan certainly has a lot of chutzpah considering the trail of scandals she has been involved in, from her complicity in Hillary's abandonment of US ambassadors in Benghazi to illegal unmasking of members of the Trump campaign organization and White House staff members:

After arresting presidential challenger, Belarus's Lukashenka says 'revolution' thwarted

RFE/RL
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:34 UTC

Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka

Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka claims to have thwarted an attempt to foment revolution in the Eastern European country, a day after his government ordered the arrest of a popular, would-be presidential candidate, prompting thousands to take to the streets to protest what they see as increased harassment of opposition leaders.

Speaking at a government meeting on June 19, Lukashenka said that forces "in the East and West" were trying to destabilize Belarus but that their "masks have been torn off" and the "puppets and puppet masters abroad" identified.

In the afternoon, dozens of people gathered in central Minsk for a final day of signature gathering for would-be candidates in the August 9 presidential election.

The participants were lining up along Independence Boulevard when police pushed them to a nearby square, amid reported disruptions of Internet connections in the area.

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Puppet Masters

Australia subject to increased cyber attacks by 'foreign entity' - PM

US and Russia to hold New START talks next week, China declines invite

John Kerry warns of revolution if Trump re-elected

The Muslim Brotherhood, auxiliaries of the Pentagon

From dodgy dossiers to the sacking of Whitlam, the British Empire is revealed

The environmental Nakba: Palestine under Israeli colonization

BDS progresses: Gives Israel a black eye; legal blow to pro-Israel lobby

California's Governor Newsom declares facemasks mandatory in public

'Deplorables' redux: Susan Rice says Trump's supporters in Senate belong 'to the trash heap of history'

After arresting presidential challenger, Belarus's Lukashenka says 'revolution' thwarted

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