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'Our hands aren't tied' anymore: WH approves offensive US cyber strategy


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 21:04 UTC
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© Wall Street
US President Donald Trump has signed off on a new cyber strategy - the first such document in 15 years - outlining defensive priorities and threatening offensive action against foreign hackers.

"Today the president signed a national cyber strategy, the first fully articulated cyber strategy in 15 years," National Security Adviser John Bolton told reporters on Thursday. "The strategy takes effect today."

The 35-page document, made public by the White House, is the first time the US has articulated an offensive cyber strategy. It rolls back many of the restrictions placed on Washington's digital warriors under Trump's predecessor, according to Bolton.


Comment: Washington's "Digital Warriors" - sounds like the al-Qaeda of the cyber world.

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'Freedom of navigation isn't a freedom to invade and infringe upon sovereignty' says China's UK envoy


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 04:59 UTC
Ships
© Todd Cichonowicz/US NavyRonald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike groups in the Philippine Sea.
Beijing "cherishes" the freedom of navigation principle but will not remain idle as Western powers use it as a pretext to show off their "military might" and "create trouble" in the South China Sea, China's UK ambassador has said.

"Some big countries outside the region did not seem to appreciate the peace and tranquility in the South China Sea. They sent warships and aircraft all the way to the South China Sea to create trouble," Ambassador Liu Xiaoming told the annual Induction Programme for Commonwealth Diplomats, held in London.

China, the Ambassador stressed, has no problem with freedom of navigation and actually "cherishes" the principle, which allows "hundreds of thousands" of ships to sail through the disputed waters of one of the world's biggest trade arteries. Beijing is only concerned when the US vessels and those of their allies brazenly breach the territorial waters of the Paracel and the Spratly chain of islands, where China has been building up military infrastructure to protect its territorial claims.

Comment: Posturing. China surely has its sensitivity as to who and what goes through this particular strait and the US has no qualms about poking that sensitivity and exploiting its military might. Obviously, China "cherishes" the freedom of navigation principle - but not for some. And, obviously the US "cherishes" the freedom of navigation principle and tries to prove it.

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A smear? Corbyn said to have called a boycott of Arsenal FC for club's 2006 Israeli tourist board deal


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:57 UTC
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© Pool/ReutersLabour Party Leader Jeremy Corbin • Chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels, Belgium, 2017.
Jeremy Corbyn urged fans to boycott his favorite football club, Arsenal FC, in 2006, after they struck a sponsorship deal with the Israeli tourist board, saying it's wrong to treat both 'Israel and Palestinians as equals'.

The Labour leader, who is a lifelong Arsenal FC fan and supporter of the Palestinian people, called on fans to boycott the club, after Israeli holiday destinations were advertised at the stadium. The £350,000 deal was signed off by Dubai-based Emirates airline, Arsenal's prime sponsor, before going ahead, the Mail Online reported.

Speaking at the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Trade Union Conference in 2006, Corbyn said: "We must campaign against and boycott Arsenal football club for their arrangement with the Israeli tourist board. It is wrong to treat both parties [Israel and the Palestinians] as equals," he said, adding: "The situation is the running sore of US foreign policy."

The revelation has been met with anger from his opponents, with one social media user urging Corbyn to "stop digging" in reference to the anti-Semitism 'crisis' within Labour. Another hopes that he is "roundly booed" the next time he attends an Arsenal football match. The Labour supporters, meanwhile, are asking why the Mail has trawled through 12 years of history to find a "non-story."

Neil Clark, a journalist and broadcaster, told RT that this latest story on Corbyn is part of an ongoing campaign to push him to the point of resignation - and that it will continue so long as he is Labour leader. "There is quite clearly a campaign to get Jeremy Corbyn to stand down or failing that to really smear him, try to keep this [story] so often, that he is an anti-Semite or that he is someone that has a problem with Jewish people," Clark told RT.

Comment: It's information cherry-picking with a slice of condemnation aimed to malign Corbyn into resignation - or so the 'story' (or 'non-story') goes.

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Fast Times at Feinstein High: Dems ambush Brett Kavanaugh with last-minute sex assault charges

Robert Bridge
RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 19:11 UTC
Brett Kavanaugh
© Chris Wattie / Reuters
Up until the eleventh hour, it looked as though Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court was sailing smoothly to the confirmation finish line. Then the Democrats reached deep, accusing the judge of sexual wrongdoing many proms ago.

Imagine the following scenario: You are on the verge of landing a job that you've been preparing for your whole life. You possess all of the necessary skills and qualifications and the interview has gone exceptionally well. Now it's just a matter of waiting for that big telephone call. Then, like a bolt of lightning from a clear blue sky, a person you haven't heard from in decades is publicly accusing you of 'sexual assault.' Suddenly, your entire life, not to mention job prospects, is turned upside down. Such is the ultimate power of sexually-charged accusations.

That is more or less the situation facing Brett Kavanaugh, 53, the federal appeals judge who Donald Trump nominated to fill the empty seat on the nine-member Supreme Court. Just days before the Senate Judiciary Committee was to vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation, which appeared to be a done deal, Senator Dianne Feinstein unleashed a proverbial stink bomb, saying that a woman had sent her a letter, accusing Mr. Kavanaugh of sexual wrongdoing while the two were in high school some 36 years ago. The date stamp on that claim is only one of many suspicious details concerning the allegation.
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PayPal bans InfoWars for 'promoting hate and intolerance'


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:22 UTC
Alex Jones
© Jim Bourg / ReutersAlex Jones, founder of Infowars
Payment processing service PayPal has banned Alex Jones's InfoWars, saying that the site "promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance" and thus violated their use policy.

InfoWars itself broke the news on Friday, saying that PayPal sent them an email the day before informing Jones of the decision. PayPal was used to process purchases at InfoWars' on-site store.

According to InfoWars, PayPal had conducted a comprehensive review of their website and found it "promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions."

The service offered no specific examples. InfoWars says the two examples they were given off the record were their criticism of Islam and opposition to transgenderism being taught in schools. PayPal's definition of hate is "is so vague that virtually anything could qualify," InfoWars said.
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Mr. Potato

Oops! Michael Cohen praises his own 'integrity & veracity' during Mueller probe in 'accidental' tweet


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:11 UTC
Michael Sohen
© Brendan McDermid / ReutersFormer Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
In a bizarre blunder, Michael Cohen has praised own patriotism and trumpeted the crucial role he plays in the notorious Mueller investigation, in a tweet that was allegedly meant to be sent from his lawyer's account.

Just hours after it was reported that Cohen valiantly and voluntarily sat through hours and hours of interviews with Mueller's team in recent weeks, the hero took to Twitter personally to emphasize his own role in the spectacle. The tweet, however was abruptly deleted less than a minute later - only to reappear again, this time from the account of his lawyer Lanny Davis.

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Fmr Scalia clerk expects 'compelling evidence' to exonerate Kavanaugh and have him confirmed by next week

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:53 UTC
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Judge Brett Kavanaugh will be exonerated of wrongdoing and will be confirmed to his post on the US Supreme Court, according to Ed Whelan - a former clerk to USSC Justice Antonin Scalia and current president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a conservative think tank.

Amid a series of cryptic and not-so-cryptic tweets in the last 48 hours, Whelan says: "By one week from today, I expect that Judge Kavanaugh will have been clearly vindicated on this matter. Specifically, I expect that compelling evidence will show his categorical denial to be truthful. There will be no cloud over him."

Wahlen then followed up with a series of tweets suggesting that the accusation may have even been made in good-faith.

"It's precisely b/c sexual assault is so terrible that it is deeply unjust when someone is mistakenly (even good-faith mistakenly) accused of having committed it," he said. "Everyone should rejoice when the mistake is found."

As Law and Crime notes:
Is Whelan implying that Christine Ford has mistaken Kavanaugh for someone else ? Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) recently suggested, to the dismay of some, that this might be the case when he said Ford might be "mixed up."

Whelan did link to a Yahoo story saying this may be a case of "mistaken identity."
Whelan also says that Senator Feinstein "will soon be apologizing to Judge Kavanaugh."
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Light Saber

Project Veritas Deep State expose Part 3: US GAO auditor admits "I break rules every day"


Project Veritas
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:20 UTC
Project Veritas Deep State
© Screen shot Project Veritas
Project Veritas has released the next in a series of undercover reports which unmask the Deep State. This report features a Government Accountability Office (GAO) employee and self-proclaimed Communist actively engaged in potentially illegal political activity. Natarajan Subramanian is a government auditor for the GAO and a member of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America (Metro DC DSA).

Metro DC DSA is a socialist group that works to advance progressive issues in the Metropolitan DC area. Subramanian's political activism may directly violate federal statutes as well as the "Yellow Book" rules which apply specifically to government auditors.

Subramanian says that Federal employees in executive branch agencies can deliberately work less efficiently in order to slow down the implementation of the President's agenda:
"If you're in [an] executive branch agency you can slow ball things to a degree, that it's like ineffective, and maybe you get in trouble, or maybe you get fired or resign or whatever, but you slowed [Trump's agenda] down for a certain period of time."
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Google admits it lets hundreds of third party apps read your emails


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:45 UTC
gmail
© Valentin Wolf / Global Look Press
Omnipresent tech giant Google told US senators that it lets third-party apps read data from Gmail accounts and share this information with marketers, even though Google itself allegedly stopped this practice last year.

In a letter sent to the lawmakers in July and made public on Thursday, Google said that developers may share your data with third parties for the purposes of ad-targeting, "so long as they are transparent with the users about how they are using the data."

In practice, this means that any app that shares your private data with advertisers must disclose this fact in their privacy policy. This is seen first in a pop-up box that includes a note that the app wants permission to "read, send, delete and manage your email." However, information about the marketers this data is shared with can often be more difficult to find.

Google's letter came in response to a request by Republican senators for information about the scope of the email content accessible to these third parties. In their letter to the company, the senators claim that one marketing company, Return Path Inc, read the private contents of 8,000 emails to train its AI algorithms.

Comment: Make no mistake, the biggest beneficiary of Google's "charitable" ways sharing your private correspondence is the US government.

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Ukraine brags its airborne troops captured US HQ during exercise in Germany


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:19 UTC
NATO Ukrainian troops
© Ukrainian General Staff
A Ukrainian airborne troops company have blindsided NATO troops during a joint military exercise, capturing an American HQ and a team of Italian commandos, its general staff bragged on Facebook.

Ukraine is one of 20 nations taking part in the annual Saber Junction exercise in Germany's Bavaria. On Wednesday evening, US and Italian C-130s airdropped some 1,000 paratroopers from the 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team and allied forces behind 'enemy's lines', according to Stars and Stripes. They then launched a nighttime attack.

But early on Friday morning the tide apparently turned for the paratroopers. According to the Ukrainian general staff, the 173rd lost its field HQ to a surprise attack by the Ukrainians, who 'took out' 32 people while 'losing' two of their own.

Comment: If NATO troops got captured by Ukrainian troops, then how do they think they can survive a hot war with the Russians?

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