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CEO of cybersecurity company lays out scope of cyberattack on US, suggests culprit not yet known


The Daily Wire
Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:01 UTC
FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia
© Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFireEye CEO Kevin Mandia
The CEO of FireEye, a cybersecurity company based out of California, suggested during an interview on Sunday that the culprit of the massive cyberattack was not yet officially known as he laid out the scope of the attack, which many experts have suggested could be among the worst in U.S. history.

FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia's interview on CBS News's "Face The Nation" comes after the company noticed that it had been hacked and, after investigating, discovered that the hackers breached the software company SolarWinds, which they used to gain access to U.S. government agencies and departments, as well as numerous private firms.

"There's a lot of ways to look at this intrusion, and first and foremost, it's different than other ones that we commonly respond to," Mandia said. "We respond to over a thousand breaches a year. And what separates this is who did it, how they did it, and what they did when they got in."

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'We support free press, but...': Conservatives mutiny after neocon Heritage Foundation says Assange is 'US enemy' unworthy of pardon


RT
Sat, 19 Dec 2020 12:58 UTC
don't extradite assange sign
© REUTERS/Henry NichollsA supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange protests in London, Britain September 9, 2020.
Right-leaning pundits and social media users are sharpening their pitchforks after the Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think tank, insisted that Julian Assange is not a member of the press and should not receive clemency.

The Washington, DC-headquartered public policy institute on Friday expressed its displeasure over rumors that President Donald Trump is mulling a pardon for the WikiLeaks founder, who is fighting extradition to the US.

"We support a free and open press-but Assange is not a free speech hero," the think tank wrote, adding that the Australian national, who has been languishing in a UK prison since April 2019 after being arrested in London, "deserves to face the full legal consequences of his actions" and "under no circumstances" is worthy of the president's mercy.

Comment: Another pundit calling for Assange's pardon is... Sarah Palin? From Gateway Pundit:
Sarah Palin Calls for Julian Assange to Be Pardoned, 'Years Ago I Publicly Spoke Out Against Julian — and I Made a Mistake'
Cassandra Fairbanks December 19, 2020 at 11:36am

The legendary Sarah Palin has made a touching video calling for Julian Assange to be pardoned.

Palin has been an unlikely supporter of the organization, as WikiLeaks published Palin's own hacked emails during the 2008 election while she was a presidential candidate.

"Hey this is Sarah Palin up in Alaska and I am the first one to admit when I make a mistake," Palin begins in the video. "I made a mistake some years ago, not supporting Julian Assange — thinking that he was a bad guy, that he leaked material that perhaps he shouldn't — and I've learned a lot since then."


"I think Julian did the right thing, and Julian did us all a favor in America... did the world a favor... by fighting for what he believed was right — and ultimately he's been proven to be right. He deserves a pardon. He deserves all of us to understand more about what he has done in the name of real journalism, and that's getting to the bottom of issues that the public really needs to hear about and benefit from."

Palin says that "some years ago I publicly spoke out against Julian and I made a mistake."

"I know that it's coming down to the wire on whether he's going to be pardoned or not. I want more Americans to speak out on his behalf, and to understand what it is that he has done — and what has been done to him," Palin says. "He was working on the people's behalf to allow information to get to us so that we could make up our minds about different issues, about different people. He did the right thing. I support him, and I hope that more and more people, especially as it comes down to the wire, will speak up in support of pardoning Julian. God bless him."

Though Palin's emails did not contain anything scandalous, the Washington Post and other news organizations called for volunteers to help their reporters dig through them and treated the publication far differently than they did when DNC emails leaked in 2016.
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'Come get me if I'm wrong': Proud Boys leader, wanted by FBI over possible HATE CRIME, admits to burning BLM sign, denies guilt


RT
Sat, 19 Dec 2020 03:35 UTC
burning BLM flag
© Parler / Enrique Tarrio / ScreenshotProud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio (right of center) and others attempt to set fire to a Black Lives Matter banner during a rally in Washington, DC, December 12, 2020.
The leader of the Proud Boys has confessed to torching a Black Lives Matter banner at a Washington, DC church last weekend after the FBI opened a "hate crime" probe into the incident, but maintains he did nothing illegal.

The chairman of the controversial group, Enrique Tarrio, admitted to the stunt in a post to Parler early on Friday morning, saying that while he did burn the BLM banner during a political rally last week, "there was no hate crime committed."

"Against the wishes of my attorney I am here today to admit that I am the person responsible for the burning of this sign," Tarrio wrote, adding "I didn't do it out of hate...I did it out of love," and that the sign-burning "wasn't about race, religion or political ideology," but rather "a racist movement that has terrorized the citizens of this country."

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A political coup against Sweden's successful no-lockdown policy just as it becomes more vindicated than ever

Marko Marjanović
Anti Empire
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:45 UTC
Anders Tegnell
The reason Denmark and Norway entered into a hard lockdown in March but Sweden did not isn't because Danish and Norwegian authorities recommended that, but because they were overridden by politicians. Actually, their health authorities had proposed more modest measures. Not quite as liberal as the ones proposed in Sweden but more liberal than what the politicians ordered instead.

In Sweden, you had a similar situation in that the political government was more panicky than the health authorities, but in Sweden uniquely the politicians actually did not have the power to override the civil service. This sounds very technocratic but is actually not a recent invention but a legacy tradition.

Comment: See also: Sweden caves in to coronavirus fearmongering and begins to enforce baseless lockdown restrictions

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Best of the Web: Merry? No, this year we need an Angry Christmas!

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:53 UTC
family Christmas
A general view of a family delivering Christmas presents on December 19 before going into a lockdown at midnight in Cardiff, Wales
Some of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under my bed in a Bucharest hotel, as tracer bullets whizzed by my window, and the snowy city echoed to the sound of crazy gunfire.

Christmas Day wasn't much better and when I eventually made it home I promised my family and myself that I'd try not to let that happen again. But how can you tell?

That particular mad journey had begun with what was supposed to be a day trip to Dresden in what was still East Germany. Just as a later visit to Jerusalem somehow finished up in Mogadishu, a city I had never planned to visit and hope very much never to see again.

And in 2003 I managed to find myself on my way back from a miserable, dark and desperate Baghdad as Christmas approached, slumped in the back of a utility truck as it growled endlessly across the reddish Mars-like desert between the River Euphrates and the Jordanian border.

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Moscow refuses to lockdown Christmas, festivities to go ahead with curfews & tests as mayor says end to pandemic in sight


RT
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 13:00 UTC
moscow christmas 2020
© Sputnik / Anton DenisovFILE PHOTO.
Although cases of coronavirus are continuing to rise in Russia, the mayor of Moscow has said there is light at the end of the tunnel, as the city prepares to celebrate a socially-distanced Christmas and New Year.

Sergey Sobyanin told Rossiya 1 news channel on Saturday that he believes "we'll fight Covid-19 for a long time to come, but the most acute period should end in a few months." He added that the most difficult choice for political leaders was not when to close things down, but when to open them back up.

"Cancelling restrictions means you risk the possibility of mass infections," he said, reiterating that it was necessary to avoid catastrophic damage to whole sectors of the economy.

Comment: Meanwhile in the UK: Ruthless UK government places a third of its population under EVEN STRICTER lockdown for Christmas

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Killing of 6th Palestinian child in 2020 was 'grave violation of international law.' But liberal Zionists want US to keep funding Israeli soldiers

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Ali Abu Aliya
© TwitterAli Abu Aliiah
We have tried to keep the focus here on the murder by Israeli soldiers of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy on December 4 when all Ali Abu Aliah was doing was protesting the illegal seizure of his occupied village's lands by Jewish settlers. It is a heinous crime that ought to be motivating American leaders to take action against Israeli soldiers - by refusing to continue to give Israel $4 billion a year in military aid.

Sadly the murder has gotten little attention in the United States. The New York Times has not covered the case, though the United Nations issued a statement on it three days ago calling it a "grave violation of human rights," and saying Ali Abu Aliah was the sixth Palestinians child killing by Israel this year, and Israeli soldiers act with complete impunity.

From the High Commissioner on Human Rights:
UN human rights experts today called for an impartial and independent investigation into the killing of a 15-year-old boy by Israeli security forces at a West Bank protest this month, saying they were deeply troubled by the overall lack of accountability for the killings of Palestinian children in recent years.

"The killing of Ali Ayman Abu Aliya by the Israeli Defense Forces - in circumstances where there was no threat of death or serious injury to the Israeli Security Forces - is a grave violation of international law," said the experts. "Intentional lethal force is justified only when the security personnel are facing an immediate threat of deadly force or serious harm."
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Michigan House votes to repeal 1945 emergency law used by Whitmer to issue coronavirus orders


MLive
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:25 UTC
Gretchen Whitmer
© mlive.com/KJNMichigan governor Gretchen Whitmer
Legislation that would overturn one of the emergency laws Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used as authority to issue COVID-19 orders during the first several months of the pandemic cleared the Michigan House early Friday morning.

Senate Bill 857, sponsored by Sen. Tom Barrett, R-Charlotte, would repeal the 1945 Emergency Powers of Governor Act, one of two state laws currently on the books Whitmer used to issue a wide swath of orders that required masks in public spaces, limited crowd sizes, and closed various establishments after the legislature opted not to extend the initial state of emergency declaration on April 30.

Whitmer's use of the act was ultimately deemed unconstitutional in a split October Michigan Supreme Court decision after Republicans and others challenged the orders in state and federal courts. That's left it up to the legislature to codify many of the COVID-19 executive orders invalidated by the ruling, although the state's Department of Health and Human Services has mirrored several of Whitmer's response measures in subsequent public health emergency orders.

Legislative Republicans have long butted heads with Whitmer over COVID-19 pandemic response, arguing that she's left the legislature out of discussions before implementing restrictions on in-person business and activity to limit the spread of the virus. Whitmer has criticized the legislature for not supporting prevention measures recommended by public health experts, including a statewide mandate to wear masks.

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If only they'd listened to Greta: World Economic Forum mocked for comparing CLIMATE CHANGE ON VENUS with that on Earth


RT
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:24 UTC
Thunberg venus climate change
© Reuters / Johanna Geron; Wikipedia(L) Greta Thunberg (R) Venus
When it comes to the fight against climate change, the boffins at the World Economic Forum think we can learn from the planet Venus, which had its oceans and milder climate wrecked. All that, and nobody on Venus ever drove a car.

"We can learn a lot about climate change from Venus, our sister planet," read an article on the website of the World Economic Forum (WEF) this week. According to the post, new scientific modeling has revealed that, for much of its history, Venus had surface temperatures similar to those of present-day Earth, complete with oceans, rain, and even snow.

Comment: Nothing like a bad analogy to fool the masses. The history of Venus is likely far different than the accepted narrative. Evidence that "climate change" is solar system wide

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Pandemic migration underway: Londoners fleeing latest covid lockdown measures

Mark Hookham, Holly Bancroft, Jake Ryan, Chris Jewers and James Tapsfield
The Daily Mail
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:28 UTC
london covid tier 4 crowds train station
© Alex MasonBy 7pm on Saturday evening, there were no trains available online from several London stations including Paddington, Kings Cross and Euston
Mass exodus likened to the 'last train from Saigon'

Families were last night fleeing areas of England that have been plunged into the tightest restrictions in what one leading expert described as a 'mini exodus'.

Edmund King, president of the AA, said that within 90 minutes of Boris Johnson's bombshell announcement, there were reports of people jumping into cars and taxis and even hiring vehicles to escape London before draconian new rules were imposed at midnight.

'There are certainly elements of an exodus of some people from tier 4,' he told The Mail on Sunday.

'I have heard of people actually hiring cars to get out of London to get to Liverpool because a lot of the trains are either restricted or booked.

Comment: Britain is not the only country succumbing to the latest covid madness. Germany and The Netherlands are both now restricting travel from the UK, with other EU countries preparing to follow suit. Such lockstep coordination seems a little suspicious, doesn't it?

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