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"The most destructive breach in history": Hackers use NSA code to bring Baltimore to a grinding halt

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Tue, 28 May 2019 04:10 UTC
systems down
The United States is no longer supplying its enemies only with conventional weapons - that list now also includes cyberweapons. While Baltimore has been struggling with an aggressive cyber-attack over the last three weeks, previously profiled here , it has now been revealed that a key component of the malware used by cyber-criminals was actually developed just a short drive from Baltimore - at the NSA, according to the New York Times.

The tool used - called EternalBlue - has been used by hackers in North Korea, Russia and China to "cut a path of destruction around the world", and resulted in billions of dollars in damages.

Now, it has come full circle and is back in the US, wreaking havoc just miles from Washington. In fact, security experts say that attacks using EternalBlue have soared and cyber-criminals are honing in on vulnerable towns and cities, using it to paralyze governments. The NSA's connection to the attacks had previously not been reported and the NSA hasn't commented about it since an unidentified group leaked the weapon online in April 2017.

The NSA and the FBI still don't know whether or not it was leaked by foreign spies or US insiders.
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Bizarro Earth

Stop calling identity politics 'divisive' when it is actually 'destructive'

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Mon, 27 May 2019 16:45 UTC
Jewish people of color
© Getty Images / The Washington Post
Criticism of identity politics as merely "divisive" misses the point of what is actually a coherent political movement with a radical agenda to destroy Western society as it exists.

A cookie-cutter version of this complaint - which is often heard from "sensible" centrists and "old-fashioned" left-wingers - came at the weekend from David Isaac, chair of Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission.

"We are living in a world that is more divided, there's more individualist thinking in relation to what is happening and less empathy, less hope," Isaac told the Guardian, urging Britons to look beyond "what works for me and my narrow group."
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NYC's schools 'implicit bias' training a 'catalyst for hate and division'

Susan Edelman
NY Post
Sat, 25 May 2019 16:17 UTC
Richard Carranza Darnisa Amante
© Natan Dvir; FacebookRichard Carranza and Darnisa Amante, a consultant hired by the city Department of Education
In controversial "implicit bias" training, New York City's public-school educators have been told to focus on black children over white ones - and one Jewish superintendent who described her family's Holocaust tragedies was scolded and humiliated, according to firsthand accounts.

A consultant hired by the city Department of Education told administrators at a workshop that "racial equity" means favoring black children regardless of their socio-economic status, sources said.

"If I had a poor white male student and I had a middle-class black boy, I would actually put my equitable strategies and interventions into that middle class black boy because over the course of his lifetime he will have less access and less opportunities than that poor white boy," the consultant, Darnisa Amante, is quoted as saying by those in the room.
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Another mass stabbing in Japan, two dead and more than 12 injured

Hiroshi Hiyama
Yahoo News
Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00 UTC
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Two people including a schoolgirl were stabbed to death and more than a dozen injured in Japan on Tuesday in a rampage that targeted children as they waited for a bus.

The attacker, a man in his 50s who has not yet been identified, crept silently up behind a group of children at the bus stop and slashed randomly at them before fatally stabbing himself in the neck.

Police said an 11-year-old schoolgirl named Hanako Kuribayashi and a 39-year-old parent, identified as government official Satoshi Oyama, died in the attack, which shocked a country where violent crime is rare.

Seventeen more people, mainly young children, were injured, according to authorities who had previously given the schoolgirl's age as 12.

Koji Shimazu of the St. Marianna University School of Medicine, told AFP that one woman in her 40s and three schoolgirls had to undergo surgery for knife wounds to the head and neck.

"It is a very harrowing case. I feel strong anger," Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in televised remarks.
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Dallas landmark Ambassador Hotel destroyed in massive blaze


RT
Tue, 28 May 2019 12:10 UTC
Fire Ambassador Hotel Dallas TX
© Twitter / Dallas Fire-Rescue
An enormous fire has engulfed the historic Ambassador Hotel near downtown Dallas with more than 100 firefighters drafted in to battle the blaze.

Dallas Fire-Rescue were called to the raging inferno at approximately 1:30am local time after the five-storey building was engulfed in flames on Monday night.

A huge column of smoke was seen billowing off the building and firefighters reported that several of the floors collapsed.

Comment: Video footage of the fire from local news:



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Flashback Israeli soldiers deliberately shot Canadian doctor in both legs while he was treating injured Gaza protestors

Tarek Loubani
If Americans Knew
Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Dr. Tarek Loubani, IDF shooting medics
© Khalil Hamra/Associated PressDr. Tarek Loubani, a physician from London, Ont., was treating gunshot wound patients in Gaza when he became one himself.

Dr. Loubani, a Canadian physician, was in Gaza to treat the wounded in the Great March of Return - and to test a new 3-D printed tourniquet - when he was apparently targeted and shot in both legs. He is among at least 17 paramedics injured; one was killed.

On Monday May 14, while treating patients with gunshot wounds in Gaza during the Great March of Return, Canadian physician Tarek Loubani was shot in both legs by Israeli forces. One medic on his team, Musa Abuhassanin, was killed while attempting to providing care Palestinian protesters. Loubani published an account that noted he and the medical staff were wearing "high visibility clothing" and when they approached injured Palestinians, they did so with their hands raised as to show soldiers they were unarmed medical professionals.

After Loubani was wounded, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for an investigation and issued a statement, "We are appalled that Dr. Tarek Loubani, a Canadian citizen, is among the wounded - along with so many unarmed people, including civilians, members of the media, first responders, and children."

Comment: Israel's war criminals in their own words: "...we're putting snipers up because we want to preserve the values we were educated by."

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Outraged US congressman, journalists fall for fake Trump quote by TIME contributor


RT
Mon, 27 May 2019 08:32 UTC
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© Global Look Press / ZUMA Press / Christopher Jue
Twitter went into overdrive over a fabricated quote of US President Donald Trump praising North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The fake quote drew real outrage from Rep. Ted Lieu and other members of the anti-Trump resistance.

The 'quote' was posted by foreign policy expert and TIME magazine contributor Ian Bremmer on Sunday and was quickly picked up by media people and politicians, including Democratic US representative and fervent Trump critic Ted Lieu.

The since-deleted tweet by Bremmer read: "President Donald Trump in Tokyo: 'Kim Jong Un is smarter and would make a better president than Sleepy Joe Biden.'" It was retweeted almost a thousand times before being taken down.
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Young couple executed in South Africa amid spike in attacks on white farmers


Sputnik
Mon, 27 May 2019 20:04 UTC
South Africa murder
© AP Photo / Denis Farrel
The tragedy comes after South African police arrested a man on suspicion of brutally murdering a female white farmer 250 kilometres from the country's capital. Just days before her tragic death, Annette Kennealy shared an article about skyrocketing attacks on white farmers in South Africa.

A young white couple have been shot and killed in broad daylight by unknown assailants in South Africa after their car ran out of diesel, in what police suspect was a racist attack.

The double murder of 19-year-old Johanco Fleischman and his girlfriend Jessica Kuhn, 23, took place on Sunday near the town of Benoni in Gauteng Province, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) east of the capital Johannesburg.

Comment: See also:

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The indictment of Julian Assange under the Espionage Act is a threat to the press and the American people

James Risen
The Intercept
Fri, 24 May 2019 21:01 UTC
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© Oli Scarff/Getty ImagesPlacards left by supporters of Julian Assange outside the Ecuadorian Embassy on Aug. 20, 2012 in London, England.
A true democracy does not allow its government to decide who is a journalist. A nation in which a leader gets to make that decision is on the road to dictatorship.

That is why the new U.S. indictment of Julian Assange is so dangerous to liberty in America.

The Trump administration has charged Assange under the Espionage Act for conspiring to leak classified documents. The indictment, released yesterday, focuses on his alleged efforts to encourage former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to leak classified documents to him and WikiLeaks about a decade ago.

Comment: It is highly unlikely that Assange was working with a foreign intelligence service. Wikileaks have repeatedly said that their source for the DNC emails was not Russian. It's a shame that, despite the Intercept having it right on the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense, still believes in a Russian boogeyman working behind the scenes.

See:

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Bizarro Earth

Edinburgh food bank users 'on brink of starvation amid soaring demand'

Anu Shukla
The Independent
Tue, 28 May 2019 10:23 UTC
edinburgh food bank
© The Edinburgh Food ProjectA box with basic supplies, which forms part of the pack given to people experiencing an emergency
People in deprived parts of Edinburgh are facing the threat of starvation as supplies at food banks across the city run "critically low", a charity has warned.

The Edinburgh Food Project, which operates seven food bank centres across north, west, central and eastern parts of the Scottish capital, said it needed urgent donations of tinned vegetables, cereal, rice, pasta sauce, coffee, juice and biscuits, among other items.

The charity, part of the Trussell Trust Food Bank network, said it only had enough food for this week, and may not be be able to supply people with complete food parcels beyond that point.

Operations manager Bethany Biggar told The Independent donations of food were not sufficient to meet rising demand.

Comment: It's likely that the appeal will be met by generous donations and the crisis will be averted, but nothing has been done to remedy the dire economic situation UK citizens are facing and so it won't be long before similar issues begin to erupt throughout the country:

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