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Target

The French government says it's being targeted by unusual intense cyberattacks


Comment: ...and it's blaming Russia. Duh!


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The French government said Monday that several of its services have been targeted by cyberattacks of "unprecedented intensity," and a special crisis center was activated to restore online services.

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's office said in a statement that the attacks started Sunday night and hit multiple government ministries, without providing details. By Monday afternoon, it said, "the impact of the attacks has been reduced for most services and access to government sites restored."

A group of hackers called Anonymous Sudan, which is considered by cybersecurity experts as pro-Russia, claimed responsibility for the attacks in online posts. The French prime minister's office and digital safety agency wouldn't comment on the claim, or provide details of what was targeted or what damage might have been caused.

A French official said they were denial-of-service attacks, a common type of cyberattack that involves flooding a site with data in order to overwhelm it and knock it offline.

Comment: Not France's first time accusing Russia of cyber-attacks:
2017: France condemns alleged Russian cyberattacks targeting presidential candidate Macron
Suspected Russian cyberattacks on the French presidential campaign are "unacceptable", France's foreign minister said it was clear that pro-Europe candidate Emmanuel Macron was being targeted.

"It's enough to see which candidates, Marine Le Pen or Francois Fillon, Russia expresses preference for in the French electoral campaign," Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in an interview with Journal du Dimanche. "Whereas Emmanuel Macron, who is pro-Europe, is being targeted by cyberattacks."
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday accused Russia of cyberattacks that he said constituted an "aggression against our country". Speaking at a news conference in Paris, Macron said cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns by the Kremlin showed that "Vladimir Putin's Russia has become a systematic actor of destabilisation in the world."
Accusing Russia provides an opportunity to execute 'a defensive reverse slam'.

What's remarkable about this latest 'attack on our democracy' is that the French foreign minister was able to predict it two weeks ahead of time. Maybe he's a Russian agent?!


Gavel

It's a miscarriage of justice to let Fani Willis keep prosecuting Trump

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© Fox News/YouTubeFulton County's Fani Willis
Fani Willis and the Fulton County D.A.'s office now have a personal stake in prosecuting the defendants who exposed Willis's affair.

Fani Willis and the Fulton County district attorney's office can remain in charge of the prosecution of Donald Trump and his Republican co-defendants so long as Willis's former lover resigns, presiding Judge Scott McAfee ruled Friday.

Within hours of the decision, Nathan Wade — now Willis's ex — exited the case. While McAfee declared that half-measure solved the problem of an "appearance of impropriety," the court's reasoning established that true justice requires the removal of Willis and the entire Fulton County D.A.'s office.

Judge McAfee's 23-page opinion followed a two-month spectacle that began when defendant Michael Roman filed a motion to dismiss the charges brought against him by Willis and to have the Fulton County D.A.'s office disqualified from prosecuting the case. Willis had charged Roman, a Trump 2020 campaign official, along with former President Donald Trump and 17 other defendants in a sprawling 98-page indictment that included some 41 different counts.

Comment: Courting disaster: Justice has become 'convenient'.

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Russian Flag

Getting the NATO-Russia Ukrainian war dead wrong

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Propaganda and outright disinformation continue to masquerade as 'Russia analysis' across the West and Ukraine. This is proving fatal for Western policy and the survival of the Ukrainian state. For example, in summer 2023 Michael McFaul tweeted "Ukraine is winning". Now: "Russia is not 'winning' in Ukraine. In the last year, Putin has sent to be slaughtered tens of thousands of Russian soldiers and tons of equipment all to take 2 villages. Ukraine is enduring losses too, but Russia is not achieving major victories". McFaul's claim that over the last year Russia has taken only "2 villages" is a bald-faced lie or the product of unbounded ignorance.

McFaul here is calling Bakhmut and Avdeevka 'villages'. These have been the loci of Russia's two most important offensive victories over that last year; its most important defensive victory was the defeat of Ukraine's summer 2023 counteroffensive — an endeavour doomed from the start precisely because of the inaccuracies and falsehoods being purveyed as military, political, and economic strategic analysis in the West. Bakhmut, for example, had a pre-war population of 76,000, and the latter — 32,000. These population sizes are not those of villages but of small towns, as any third-grader would know. Moreover, Bakhmut was an important transport hub, in particular for moving troops between north and south Donbass and eastern Ukraine, and Avdeevka was the most powerful Ukrainian stronghold in Donbass and eastern Ukraine, reinforced for over eight years since the Donbass civil war began. It was a key centre for ultranationalist and neofascist Ukrainian units, which routinely fired on civilian centres in pro-Russian Donetsk. Its fall opens the way for a Russian march to the Dnepr River over the next year or so. Villages never have such strategic significance.

Comment: Russia will complete its SMO in its own time and on its own terms, and there is nothing the West can do about it. In short, wishful thinking will get you every time.


Star of David

Israel demanding 'new deal' from Hamas

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© AFP / Gil Cohen-MagenDavid Barnea speaks during the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) World Summit in Herzliya, Israel, September 10, 2023.
The country's top spy is en route to Qatar for ceasefire talks with the militants

Mossad chief David Barnea is traveling to Qatar to continue ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, but will not accept a deal proposed last week by the Palestinian militants, Israel's i24 News reported on Monday.

Barnea, who heads the Israeli intelligence agency, will seek to renegotiate the "bad" deal put forward by Hamas, i24 reported, citing government sources. These same sources stressed that a new agreement is unlikely to be reached in Doha, with Hebrew news site Ynet quoting other government sources as saying that Barnea's team had requested "a significant amount of time" to draft a new arrangement.


Comment: Israel playing for time to continue the slaughter.


Hamas announced on Friday that it had presented its ceasefire "vision" to Qatari and Egyptian mediators. Reuters later revealed details of the Hamas proposal, which it said envisages a two-stage road-map toward ending the fighting.

Comment: It doesn't matter how many concessions Hamas might make. It will never be enough, and Hamas knows it. What will it take to pull the plug on the zionist psychos?


Propaganda

Conservatives fume that Trump's 'bloodbath' comment is taken out of context and MSM is pushing 'deceptive' headlines

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© Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMedia outlets seized on former President Donald Trump using the word "bloodbath" during his rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday, March 16, 2024.
Commentator Sean Parnell wrote, 'NBC pushing the bloodbath hoax now. Unreal. These 'news' agencies need a complete overhaul'

Prominent conservatives on social media tore into several media outlets this weekend for appearing to take former President Trump's comments at a recent Ohio rally out of context.

Conservative commentators, Republican lawmakers, and others slammed outlets like Rolling Stone, NBC News, and CBS News for sharing headlines about Trump claiming there would be a "bloodbath" if he didn't win re-election that didn't mention he was referring to the automotive industry.

These critics claimed this was a new, anti-Trump "hoax" being manufactured in real time.

Comment: Some examples of the deception being called out:








Bad Guys

Troops from NATO states operating in Ukraine - Putin

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© Gian Marco Benedetto / Anadolu via Getty ImagesItalian M109 self-propelled howitzer
It is no secret that fighters from NATO states are present on the ground in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed. He warned that these troops face extremely grim prospects.

Speaking to his supporters and the media on Sunday night after his landslide presidential election victory, Putin stressed that Moscow is well aware of calls in the US-led military bloc to potentially deploy troops to Ukraine.

"We hear both French and English speech there. There is nothing good in this, first of all for them, because they die there and in large numbers," he said.

Putin

Best of the Web: Putin's dream, Russian unity, conflict with NATO: Key takeaways from election victory speech

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President Vladimir Putin has addressed the people of Russia following a historic election victory with over 87% of the vote in his favor, amid a record-high turnout. Here are the key takeaways from his speech and a question-and-answer session at campaign headquarters in Moscow on Sunday night.

Putin's dream

"I dreamed of a strong, independent, sovereign Russia," Putin told the audience, expressing his hope that the results of the vote "will allow us all, together with the Russian people, to achieve these goals."

Record election results

The citizens of Russia realize the dramatic situation the country is going through and understand that much depends on them, Putin said.

"Due to the current situation, due to the fact that we have to literally defend the interests of our citizens, our people with weapons in our hands, to create a future for the full-fledged, sovereign, secure development of the Russian Federation, our homeland."

This year's election was marked by a record-high voter turnout of over 74%, with Putin winning over 87% of the vote. The Russian president stressed that while the results would be good for a mono-ethnic state - for a multi-ethnic country like Russia they are "uniquely exceptional."

Future challenges

The Russian leader noted that while the country faces numerous challenges, its people will be up to the task if they remain united.

"We have a lot of tasks ahead of us. And when we are united, no one can intimidate or suppress us. No one succeeded at this before, it did not happen now and will never occur in the future."

"We have a huge development agenda, and people felt it in their hearts and came to create conditions for the development and strengthening of their Motherland... the results of the election are a guarantee that these tasks will be accomplished and goals will be reached."

Border incursions & 'cordon sanitaire' in Ukraine

Russia has repelled multiple attempts by Ukrainian sabotage groups to break into its territory over the past week, with Putin saying that "the enemy has deployed a group of about five thousand people, and their losses are about 40%. And those who crawled into our territory were destroyed almost 100%... If the enemy likes a 'meat grinder' - we even benefit from it."

Kiev claimed that the operation was staged by paramilitary units, which portray themselves as collaborator forces composed of Russian defectors and fugitive neo-Nazis. Putin likened the saboteurs to the Vlasov army collaborators who fought under German Nazi command during WWII.

"Those traitors, that scum fought on the side of Nazis, and now there are similar people who fight on the side of neo-Nazis," the president stressed, adding: "We all know how they ended up."

In order to protect its people from cross-border Ukrainian strikes, Russia could at some point be "forced" to set up a buffer zone in Kiev-controlled territories. The Russian forces would establish a "security zone that would be quite difficult for the adversary to overcome with its weapons, primarily of foreign origin," if and "when we consider it appropriate," Putin added.

Talks with Ukraine

Moscow has always favored peace talks, as long as the opponents are serious about establishing good neighborly relations in the long term, not just because "the adversary has run out of ammunition," Putin said.

He added that Russia is ready to consider various scenarios, provided that they align with the national interest. But since Kiev barred talks with the current leadership in Moscow, and President Vladimir Zelensky has no intention to hold elections, it will require "painstaking research" to even figure out "who to negotiate with over there," Putin noted.

Conflict with NATO

Weighing in on the possibility of a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia, Putin said that "anything is possible in the modern world" and warned that it "would be one step shy of a full-scale World War III.""I don't think that anyone is interested in that," he added, stressing that Moscow was well aware of the US-led military bloc's push to deploy troops in Ukraine.

Putin noted that volunteer fighters from NATO states are facing extremely grim prospects, saying "there is nothing good in this, first of all for them, because they die there and in large numbers."

Black Magic

Best of the Web: Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse... These Are Israel's Crimes

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Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel's current, horrifying atrocities?

Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised.

No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October - quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel's obstruction of aid.

Last week, an investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz disclosed that some 27 Palestinians seized off Gaza's streets over the past five months are known to have died during interrogations inside Israel.

Some were denied medical treatment. But most are likely to have been tortured to death.

Three months ago, a Haaretz editorial warned that Israeli jails "must not become execution facilities for Palestinians".

Israeli TV channels have been excitedly taking viewers on tours of detention centres, showing the appalling conditions Palestinians are kept in, as well as the psychological and physical abuse they are subjected to.

An Israeli judge recently called the makeshift cages in which Palestinians are held "unsuitable for humans".

Comment: The ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians might well result in the end of Israel.

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Attention

How NATO powers are using the U.K.'s World War I model to lure Russia into the next big global war

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Using duplicity, deception and secret alliances, the U.K.'s inner circle of top elites led by Nathaniel Rothschild, King Edward VII, and Lord Alfred Milner backed the German Kaiser into a corner and intentionally set the Germans up to blame them for starting the First World War, when in fact it was the British who provoked the Germans to the point where war was the only option.

German generals were caught strategizing several weeks ago on how to bomb Russia's main bridge to Crimea. This would be an act of aggression that Russian President Vladimir Putin described as guaranteed to draw a harsh military response from Russia, possibly even including a nuclear strike against Berlin.

And that has led to an admission by German officials that their military is woefully unprepared to take on Russia. If German generals and politicians truly want to provoke a war with Russia, they had better slow down and wait for their military to catch up to the political rhetoric coming out of Berlin.

A March 14 article by John Cody at Remix News shows that the German Army lacks the personnel, equipment and infrastructure to wage a major war of any kind, let alone with a nuclear-armed military superpower like Russia.

"Germany's own military and government are painting such a dire picture of the armed forces that there are now calls from some of the most powerful politicians in the country to reinstate mandatory military service," Cody writes.

Yes, a military draft.

A video produced by Remix News details testimony provided by Eva Högl, German Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces, who provided catastrophic details about the state of the German military. It is shocking in terms of its candor regarding the current state of the German armed forces.


Card - VISA

Visa & Mastercard: The real threat of the Digital ID control system

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The question isn't whether Visa and Mastercard are at the forefront of the Digital ID control system, the question is whether Visa, Mastercard and central banks will be able to pull it off without the implementation of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). A "Digital ID" may sound convenient and harmless, but the intention behind it is far reaching - compiling and connecting data and biometrics while removing every form of privacy in order to control how one spends their money, achieves access to services, and ultimately takes control over all assets.

This will have an impact on all areas of life, including education, healthcare, food, agriculture, transportation, real estate, and technology, which of course will all be controlled through the Digital ID connected to banks, and a person's social credit score. This isn't an imaginary scheme. These intentions are well documented by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), central banks, the World Bank, financial institutions, credit card companies, and government.

In simple terms, the Bank For International Settlements' (BIS) blueprint proposes that all private property in the real world, such as money, houses, cars, etc., would be "tokenized" into digital assets within an "everything in one place" global unified ledger. Of course, smart contracts on a "programmable" platform with rules on how each asset can and cannot be used are the key ingredient.