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Russian FSB detains four ISIS members in Kaluga Region


TASS
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:17 UTC
FSB members
© Alexander Ryumin / TASS
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers have detained four members of an Islamic State (terror organization, outlawed in Russia) sleeper cell, the FSB Center for Public Relations told TASS.

"Four members (residents of the Yamalo-Nenets Region) were arrested on March 14, 2018, from an Islamist sleeper cell headed by an envoy of the international terror organization who had undergone battle training on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic within the Islamic State international terror organization and arrived from the conflict zone to organize terror activity," the FSB stated.
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Cloud Grey

Defense Department to move classified data to Amazon's secret cloud

Frank Konkel
Nextgov
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:48 UTC
Amazon Cloud
For the first time, the Defense Department will begin moving classified data and applications to Amazon Web Services' Secret Region-the same cloud environment developed for the CIA and intelligence community several years ago.

U.S. Transportation Command-the part of the department responsible for moving troops and equipment around the globe-announced its intent to make use of AWS' Classified Secret Commercial Cloud Services in December after the company expanded its capabilities and availability to non-intelligence agencies.

The Defense Department's sole-source decision-a contract awarded without a full and open competition-was protested by Microsoft, which itself offers a variety of cloud services to the federal government. The company withdrew its protest March 8, allowing TRANSCOM to begin migrating data to the AWS Secret Region. In a statement to Nextgov, Microsoft said it withdrew its protest "because the issues involved were resolved" to the company's satisfaction.
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Gear

This job of truth-telling sucks sometimes

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 17:13 UTC
I'm having a really hard time.

I always do my best to speak the truth in a loud and unmitigated voice because the sociopaths who rule us have built an empire on the fact that they are bold and assertive while the healthy are meek and mild, but I'm also very sensitive, and this job gets to me sometimes.
caitlin johnstone
My social media notifications are lit up nonstop full of tags and tweets and mentions of people talking about me, calling me a racist, saying I'm a Nazi, saying I'm paid by the alt-right. I don't mind the attacks from the centrists anymore; they generally just accuse me of being a paid agent for whichever government I happen to be disputing western propaganda about on any given day. But as a lifelong bleeding heart lefty, the baseless accusations of racism and Nazism still cut like a knife.

Comment: More power to the Caitlin Johnstones, Pepe Escobars, Jordan Petersons and Ray McGoverns of the world (just to name a few). They each tell their portion of the Truth, allowing us to keep grounded amid the psychopathic 'reality creators'.

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Eye 2

American gymnastics coach and club owner arrested and charged for filming children in change rooms


RT
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:05 UTC
James Kivisto
© FacebookRacine County Sheriffs Office
American coach and Wind Lake Gymnastic Center owner, James Kivisto, has been arrested on charges of secretly taping children while they were changing in the club's bathroom.

On Tuesday, a parent informed the local police that a hidden camera was found in the bathroom, prompting detectives to immediately execute a search warrant for the club in Racine County, Wisconsin.


Comment: See also:

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Gold Coins

Italy positioning itself to profit from the New Silk Road

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:24 UTC
venice docks Italy
Italian engineers and Chinese traders are looking to transform Venice into a key hub with an offshore-onshore port system, known as Voops, to rival northern European ports such as Rotterdam
The Chinese economy is bound to surpass the 19-nation eurozone before the end of the year. You don't need to be an analyst in China to know that. Common knowledge from Guangdong to Gansu is that China's economy was bigger than Europe's up to the mid-19th century. Then came a bad spell - unleashed by Brit gunboat diplomacy - for a short 150 years.

Now things are back to a historical normal.

Europe accounts for roughly 60% of Chinese foreign investment - including mergers and acquisitions - compared to 25% in the US and 15% in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The EU as a whole is desperate for any measure of GDP increase. Almost three decades on from the Cold War, the new normal is Eurasia being configured as an increasingly integrated trade and investment space.

Comment: Forward thinking China, partnering on equitable terms with any country willing to trade with it, is about to leave the Anglo-American empire in the dust.

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Binoculars

Trump ventures into hostile California territory to view border wall prototypes amid protests


RT
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 08:39 UTC
Trump border wall San Diego CA
© Kevin Lamarque / ReutersU.S. President Donald Trump speaks while participating in a tour of U.S.-Mexico border wall prototypes in California. March 13, 2018.
Venturing into the (politically) hostile territory of California, President Donald Trump took cover under the lofty prototypes for his wall along the US-Mexico border.

The president told reporters during his tour that a real wall would stop "99 percent" of illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico. He said high walls were needed to keep out "incredible climbers."

"Getting over the top is easy. These are like professional mountain climbers, these are incredible climbers," Trump added. "They can't climb some of these walls, some of them they can."
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Mr. Potato

Radical Leftist Insanity: Swedish TV Portrays Suspected Gang Rapists as 'Victims'


Sputnik
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:07 UTC
Sweden SVT
The coverage of a gang rape case, in which a woman was subjected to sexual abuse for 10 hours, has triggered a scandal in the Nordic nation, after the alleged perpetrators were portrayed as "victims" by national broadcaster SVT.

A woman in the Malmö district of Lindängen was drugged and gang raped for several hours in early February. Subsequently, seven boys, aged 13-16, were suspected of committing the attack. Four of them were arrested, SVT reported.

In a belated TV report about the incident, however, the alleged perpetrators themselves were portrayed as victims, which sparked outrage among the Swedish public.
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Info

'We need to build bridges': German Football Association president speaks out against boycotting the Russia 2018 World Cup


RT
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:58 UTC
Reinhard Grindel
© AFPReinhard Grindel
German Football Association (DFB) president Reinhard Grindel has spoken out against a boycott of the Russia 2018 World Cup, saying it would only serve to "harm" the situation.

"The DFB is leaning towards dialogue, and not a boycott," Bild quoted the 56-year-old as saying. "We need to build bridges. A boycott will not help. The [PyeongChang 2018 Winter] Olympics in [South] Korea showed that sport can promote de-escalation and unity."

Reports on Monday suggested Germany would shun the tournament after Bild editor-in chief Julian Reichelt showed national team manager Joachim Loew and defender Joshua Kimmich pictures of bombing victims in Eastern Ghouta, Syria.


Comment: Easily falling for anti-Russian propaganda. See:
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Attention

UK government warns terrorist-supporting parents could have their children taken away


RT
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:02 UTC
ISIS, daesh, terrorist
© Fotoarena/ Global Look Press
Children being brainwashed by parents who support terrorist groups could be taken away from their families, the government has warned. Justice Secretary David Gauke said society will not condone any indoctrination.

He said on Wednesday that parents who groom their children "in pursuit of a radical agenda" could not be left in charge of bringing up a child. He said society has a right to intervene and remove children to safer spaces.

"A child brought up in an environment that leads them towards a belief in a death cult is not an environment that, as a society, we can condone. Society has got the right to say that there are some environments that are not safe and take action accordingly.

Comment: It's a slippery slope when governments begin to intervene in families. While many would agree that removing a child from terrorist supporting families is necessary to protect the child's welfare, there is the possibility that such measures, once normalized, will be used as a basis for further state intervention. We are already seeing instances where children are removed from caring parents simply because they disagree with mandatory vaccinations or gender dysphoria - the state is slowly increasing its reach to the point where parents have less and less say over what happens to their own children. Where will the lines be drawn and who will be making those decisions?

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Footprints

#MeToo movement hypocrites remain silent in the face of the Telford sex abuse scandal

Joanna Williams
Spiked!
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:31 UTC
teen in window
It's been six months since the #MeToo movement first took off. For half a year now we've had a regular drip-feed of stories drawing attention to the apparent suffering of women at the hands of men. So when this weekend's Sunday Mirror revealed the shocking abuse experienced by hundreds of women and girls in Telford we might have expected the outrage to find a new focus. The news that girls, some as young as 11, were drugged, beaten and raped by gangs of mainly Muslim, Asian-heritage men could have provided further fuel to campaigners. We might have expected shows of solidarity, reminders of the importance of believing the victim, and offers of financial support.

But no. The abuse in Telford is estimated to have involved over 1,000 girls stretching over 40 years. Young girls in the town were groomed, fed drugs and raped. They were passed between abusers like commodities. Some got pregnant, had abortions and were raped again on multiple occasions. Three women were murdered and two others died in tragedies linked to the abuse. Yet these shocking events have received relatively little coverage. Girls in Telford do not, it seems, deserve frontpage coverage in the Guardian or The Times.

The very same newspapers that covered, at length and over many days, news that Kate Maltby's knee may or may not have been touched by Damian Green or that Michael Fallon attempted to kiss Jane Merrick, were unable to muster up the same level of outrage for young women in Telford.

Comment: The #MeToo movement is not about giving voice to the powerless. It's a power grab.

For more on the Telford abuse see:

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