Year: 2017

Maria Zakharova is probably one of, if not the best, “Director of the Information and Press Department” personnel in the whole world. She tells the truth and nothing but the truth and bottom line is, “America makes her job easy to tell the truth…”

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Maria Zakharova
19 hrs ·

Приземлилась в Мадриде. Включаю телефон, а там… десятки сообщений “мариявладимировна,аправдатрамплавровурассказалсамыйглавныйсекрет?”
Ребята, вы опять американских газет начитались? Не надо их читать. Их можно использовать по-разному, но читать не надо – последнее время это уже не только вредно, но и опасно.
Напоминаю, что 11 мая я предупреждала: американские СМИ через пару дней, видимо, планировали выдать “сенсацию” о встреча Лаврова и Трампа. Правда, задумка состояла ещё и в том, чтобы разукрасить её не менее “секретными” фотографиями с прошедшей встречи, что должно было придать очередному фейку основательности и достоверности. Но эту часть плана информационной кампании мы разрушили, опубликовав фотографии так, как это положено по всем законам профессиональной этики.
Как жить в этом нестабильном информационном мире? С удовольствием. Ведь #МИДзнал )

PS В Мадриде у меня консультации с испанскими коллегами. Жду версий американских СМИ ?
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Maria Zakharova
19 hrs ·

Just as good translation as needed, by Google below…

I landed in Madrid. I turn on the phone, and there … dozens of messages “Mariyavladimirovna, apravdatramplavrovuraksgalazamyyyglavny sekret?”
Guys, have you read American newspapers again? Do not read them. They can be used in different ways, but you do not need to read – lately it’s not only harmful, but also dangerous.
I recall that on May 11, I warned: the American media in a couple of days, apparently, planned to give a “sensation” about the meeting between Lavrov and Trump. True, the idea was also to paint it with at least “secret” photos from the last meeting, which was supposed to give the next fake solidity and reliability. But this part of the information campaign plan we destroyed by publishing photos in the way it is supposed to be under all laws of professional ethics.
How to live in this unstable information world? With pleasure. After all # Midznal)

PS In Madrid, I have consultations with Spanish colleagues. I’m waiting for the versions of the American media
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We do live in a world that now needs to exclude western press. The so called MSM has become the enemy of the normal people in the world and to follow such, so called news, is detrimental to your health and mental issues…

What is worse is that the MSM has become even brutally against the American people. They do not have an ounce of care about America, to be patriotic and care about the world is now a crime in their eyes, just their agenda and that agenda is guided by only several people who own almost all the main press in the western empire. Their agenda is blind to all else happening and lies be damn, who cares if it is the truth.If you make it up and it is about Russia, China and or North Korea, then who cares about resources and truth. Print it and believe it…

The simple way to put it all is this, “I stand with the world, for our press and many people have become blinded to truth and respect of that world. The MSM is the hate and chaos we are seeing and unless we stop them we will be drawn into a war of all wars…”

The chaos out of America has become a standing joke all over the world and as such we look like a serious mental patient that has gotten out of the asylum…. We need to be put back in and kept on our medications…

I never dreamed that we as a country (USA) would ever be taking the low road in truth. We use to pride ourselves in the fact that we worked hard to keep the truth forefront and foremost…

Now from reporting news all over the world to even domestic issues, the truth has become a joke and we repeat that joke over and over and over…

If you follow me on this blog, then you know I have talked about this issue for almost ten years now…

You need to do yourself a favor, read your MSM and then search. Search Google, Yahoo, Yandex, DuckgoDuck, Bing, Dogpile and many more. I like Baidu, Yandex and DuckgoDuck…. The truth hurts and you must try to find it. For Google is in bed with the US government and you will find very skewed results if you only Google through life…

Truth takes effort in these times, but we can hope that truth will prevail. It will not if you always tune into the MSM…

Ask questions and demand answers…. The anonymous sources has to end…

The truth is there, just that you have to look around…

WtR

PS: This below is what is the norm for MSM…

http://www.patriotheadquarters.com/medias-tunnel-vision-regarding-trump-misses-real-story/#.WRvYVFwSseA.aolmail

I call bullshit. I am pissed he bombed Syria, but he is still my president! I think he understands that he messed up in Syria. Lets get on with it and clean up America…

90% of the democrats need to grow up and stop the witch hunt…. And 50% of the republicans need to get off the fence also and stop the wishy-washy waspishness…

If I/you/we/they/them can endure Obama for eight years, you can stand by someone who has shown more ability’s than Obama…. Democrat/Republican games have to end…

I thank God everyday that Hillary did not get elected…

I voted Trump to stop Hillary and many of you did also…. Does not mean that he was the best for the job, he was the best of the worst and that is the true issue…

WtR

By John Stanton

POMPEO’s FRAUD

Manning’s leaked information made WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange a household name. It also mad them permanent enemies of the US State. In 2010 Assange released a video that he called Collateral Murder. The video shows an airstrike in which Iraqi journalists are killed. Other releases based on Manning’s leak were known as the Afghan Diary and Iraq War Logs. The Diplomatic Cables exposed some of the silly machinations of the US State Department and the over classification of documents.

Meanwhile, mainstream media (MSM) outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post feasted on the leaks and gave them prominent coverage daily, even as they excoriated Assange and his merry band of leakers. The MSM believes that WikiLeaks is not “real” journalism even as they used the classified material Assange provided to bolster their subscription numbers. Aren’t they accessories to Assange’s crime? Apparently not.

Assange has been living for the past five years under the diplomatic protection in the Embassy of Ecuador in the United Kingdom. He has been accused of rape in Sweden and, if he leaves the embassy, would be arrested by UK authorities and, ultimately, end up in the USA. To make matters worse, now he is a target of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director. Pompeo once praised WikiLeaks. Whatever data he has seen that made him go ballistic can’t be good for Assange, obviously. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions over at the Justice Department has hinted that an arrest warrant is in the works.

He will never get a get out of jail card and is trapped in Ecuador’s Embassy in London. The trip from the UK to Sweden to the USA would be swift if he capitulates. “It’s time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: A non-state, hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,” CIA director Mike Pompeo said at a May event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. “Assange is a narcissist who has created nothing of value and he relies on the dirty work of others to make himself famous: He’s a fraud.”

He continues to dig a hole for himself with the recent CIA Vault leaks even as he enlightens us all, apparently, about the machinations of governments around the world.

Manning: Trump’s Traitor

Transwoman Army soldier Chelsea Manning was released from the US Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth on May 17 thanks to former President Barack Obama’s merciful commutation of Manning’s 35 year sentence.

“The sentence she received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received,” Obama was quoted as saying by the Los Angeles Times during a press conference in January. “”I feel very comfortable that justice has been served and that a message [to those who would leak classified information] has still been sent.”

On January 26 President Donald Trump said that Manning was an ungrateful traitor and should have served out her prison sentence, according to Trump’s Twitter account.

Sometime in early 2010 then heterosexual Army soldier Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, surreptitiously leaked to WikiLeaks scores of classified material. Included were US State Department diplomatic cables, videos of US Army operations and airstrikes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and other sensitive Army reports some detailing activities at Guantanamo Bay.

Manning was arrested in July 2010 and subsequently imprisoned at a US Marine Corps brig in the state of Virginia. She was court martialed and subsequently was convicted on 17 charges, including espionage, in legal proceedings known as the United States versus Manning. Manning had served seven years of her sentence when on January 17, 2017 Obama pardoned her.

The presiding judge in United States versus Manning reduced the 35 year sentence by 112 days because of the tortuous solitary confinement she underwent while at the Marine Corps jail. She attempted suicide twice while at the Fort Leavenworth prison.

Chelsea Manning’s court-martial verdict has been appealed by her lawyers, according to a published report on MSN.com. Until a military court makes a decision on her case, she will continue to receive health benefits after leaving prison. She will be an active duty, unpaid Army soldier with the rank of private.

“For the first time, I can see a future for myself as Chelsea,” Manning said in a May 9 statement released through the American Civil Liberties Union. “I can imagine surviving and living as the person who I am and can finally be in the outside world.”

One of Manning’s income sources after his release will be speaking fees and a likely book deal and movie. She is registered with AllAmericanSpeakers.com and the website has a portfolio page of her.

Manning appears to be getting the best deal, at least so far. The physical and mental abuse she underwent was not dissimilar to that of the hapless Abu Ghraib, Iraq inmates in 2003. At the moment, Assange and Snowden have been spared the atrocities that Manning endured.

Snowden: The Damned

Snowden lives in Russia thanks to the kindness of the government there. Or should we should say he serves at the pleasure of President Putin. It’s not hard to envision a deal between the Trump Administration and Putin in which Snowden is sent back to the USA for some concessions to Russia. Maybe a few of the most pernicious sanctions lifted? Who knows?

John Young of Cryptome has found the slow pace of Snowden documents released thus far maddening. He is right. Indeed, the overlords of the Snowden information have made sure that the drip, drip, drip of National Security Agency material have ensured the snail’s pace for obvious reasons: Maintain MSM interest in Snowden; keep Snowden useful to Russian interests; and in appropriately mercenary fashion, keep readers interested in the journalists and publications that made their fame and fortune off of Snowden.

Snowden is “free” in a sense. But he is not “at home” and that obviously hurts him. If he leaves Russia he will be captured and returned to the USA to face prosecution. Like Assange, he has educated much of the public to the operations of the NSA and its counterparts. But how surprising were they, really? Intelligence and Information are just two of the eight US instruments of national power.

There remains a cloud of suspicion over Snowden’s motives particularly since the Russians were not likely to take the heat for storing Snowden in their country without some notable return on the investment in him. That’s just good business. But now the public relations gift of Snowden has started to slip dramatically for the Russians and they know it.

Manning and Snowden signed agreements with the US government not to reveal classified information. And Assange knew he would piss off the US military, intelligence and diplomatic communities by posting sensitive information. The US will find, fix, track, target and capture Snowden and Assange as soon as an opportunity arises. Trade deals have been and are being discussed with Ecuador and Russia.

Meanwhile in the USA, Trump’s press statements and his notorious Twitter messages are clearly damaging US government institutions and agencies. The FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency, healthcare systems, the Justice Department, the Departments of Education and State are just some that have been the target of Trump’s frothing at the mouth either himself or through many of his political appointees. Either that or have not been staffed and are not fully functioning.

Snowden, Assange, Manning and Trump: When judgement day comes, and it will, who will have done the most damage to the United States of America.

John Stanton can be reached at jstantonarchangel@gmail.com

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The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week’s cyberattack

Posted May 14, 2017 by Brad Smith – President and Chief Legal Officer (of Microsoft)

Early Friday morning the world experienced the year’s latest cyberattack.

The WannaCrypt exploits used in the attack were drawn from the exploits stolen from the National Security Agency, or NSA, in the United States. That theft was publicly reported earlier this year. A month prior, on March 14, Microsoft had released a security update to patch this vulnerability and protect our customers.

Starting first in the United Kingdom and Spain, the malicious “WannaCrypt” software quickly spread globally, blocking customers from their data unless they paid a ransom using Bitcoin. The WannaCrypt exploits used in the attack were drawn from the exploits stolen from the National Security Agency, or NSA, in the United States. That theft was publicly reported earlier this year. A month prior, on March 14, Microsoft had released a security update to patch this vulnerability and protect our customers. While this protected newer Windows systems and computers that had enabled Windows Update to apply this latest update, many computers remained unpatched globally. As a result, hospitals, businesses, governments, and computers at homes were affected.

All of this provides the broadest example yet of so-called “ransomware,” which is only one type of cyberattack. Unfortunately, consumers and business leaders have become familiar with terms like “zero day” and “phishing” that are part of the broad array of tools used to attack individuals and infrastructure. We take every single cyberattack on a Windows system seriously, and we’ve been working around the clock since Friday to help all our customers who have been affected by this incident. This included a decision to take additional steps to assist users with older systems that are no longer supported. Clearly, responding to this attack and helping those affected needs to be our most immediate priority.

At the same time, it’s already apparent that there will be broader and important lessons from the “WannaCrypt” attack we’ll need to consider to avoid these types of attacks in the future. I see three areas where this event provides an opportunity for Microsoft and the industry to improve.

As a technology company, we at Microsoft have the first responsibility to address these issues. We increasingly are among the first responders to attacks on the internet. We have more than 3,500 security engineers at the company, and we’re working comprehensively to address cybersecurity threats. This includes new security functionality across our entire software platform, including constant updates to our Advanced Threat Protection service to detect and disrupt new cyberattacks. In this instance, this included the development and release of the patch in March, a prompt update on Friday to Windows Defender to detect the WannaCrypt attack, and work by our customer support personnel to help customers afflicted by the attack.

But as this attack demonstrates, there is no cause for celebration. We’ll assess this attack, ask what lessons we can learn, and apply these to strengthen our capabilities. Working through our Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and Digital Crimes Unit, we’ll also share what we learn with law enforcement agencies, governments, and other customers around the world.

Second, this attack demonstrates the degree to which cybersecurity has become a shared responsibility between tech companies and customers. The fact that so many computers remained vulnerable two months after the release of a patch illustrates this aspect. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, there is simply no way for customers to protect themselves against threats unless they update their systems. Otherwise they’re literally fighting the problems of the present with tools from the past. This attack is a powerful reminder that information technology basics like keeping computers current and patched are a high responsibility for everyone, and it’s something every top executive should support.

At the same time, we have a clear understanding of the complexity and diversity of today’s IT infrastructure, and how updates can be a formidable practical challenge for many customers. Today, we use robust testing and analytics to enable rapid updates into IT infrastructure, and we are dedicated to developing further steps to help ensure security updates are applied immediately to all IT environments.

Finally, this attack provides yet another example of why the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments is such a problem.

Finally, this attack provides yet another example of why the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments is such a problem. This is an emerging pattern in 2017. We have seen vulnerabilities stored by the CIA show up on WikiLeaks, and now this vulnerability stolen from the NSA has affected customers around the world. Repeatedly, exploits in the hands of governments have leaked into the public domain and caused widespread damage. An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the U.S. military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen. And this most recent attack represents a completely unintended but disconcerting link between the two most serious forms of cybersecurity threats in the world today – nation-state action and organized criminal action.

The governments of the world should treat this attack as a wake-up call. They need to take a different approach and adhere in cyberspace to the same rules applied to weapons in the physical world. We need governments to consider the damage to civilians that comes from hoarding these vulnerabilities and the use of these exploits. This is one reason we called in February for a new “Digital Geneva Convention” to govern these issues, including a new requirement for governments to report vulnerabilities to vendors, rather than stockpile, sell, or exploit them. And it’s why we’ve pledged our support for defending every customer everywhere in the face of cyberattacks, regardless of their nationality. This weekend, whether it’s in London, New York, Moscow, Delhi, Sao Paulo, or Beijing, we’re putting this principle into action and working with customers around the world.

We should take from this recent attack a renewed determination for more urgent collective action. We need the tech sector, customers, and governments to work together to protect against cybersecurity attacks. More action is needed, and it’s needed now. In this sense, the WannaCrypt attack is a wake-up call for all of us. We recognize our responsibility to help answer this call, and Microsoft is committed to doing its part.

Brad Smith
President and Chief Legal Officer (of Microsoft)

Brad Smith is Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer. Smith plays a key role in representing the company externally and in leading the company’s work on a number of critical issues including privacy, security, accessibility, environmental sustainability and digital inclusion, among others.

Well well well…. That answers who, what, where, when and it gives us everything needed to point the finger in the correct direction…

Will you read, understand and care?

You gotta Wanna…

WtR

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Gotta Blame Someone:

Having to blame the truth behind the latest malware attack is not a convenient thing to do. The root of the issue is the USA and her alphabet agencies…. This makes for a rough and tumble situation that we cannot have get out and spread. So we are tossing the usual suspects out and I suspect that North Korea, China and several other countries will be slid into the limelight as we fish for something that sticks to the Velcro of lies being told…

UPDATE just two days later: I just WannaCry all the time. NK Bad! 😉

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But, from the very beginning Russia has been in almost every headline with this escapade, yet Russia had the worse time with said WannaCry virus. But lets not let something trivial as truth get in the way. Right? I mean Russia did it and if Snowden had been a good boy, none of this would have happened? Right?

I suspect that soon all the experts of the experts will tell us all how this happened and why it happened and then tell us who to blame. I know you WannaCry, but just smile instead…

Sorry Charlie, but we hung ourselves out to dry and it is too humid to dry very fast…

Fact is:

Microsoft is pushing out updates to even older OS systems (example – XP), trying to close off this backdoor that was intentionally left opened for the alphabet criminals, such as NSA. CIA, FBI and on and on and on…

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I just WannaCry… 😉

In the best tradition of Hollywood…. We have a 22 year old who accidentally stopped the virus. Darn this guy is good and I am sure a movie will be made soon!

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I for one, applaud this guy. At 22, I was drinking, partying and killing people in other countries. This person at 22, stopped a global threat. What have I been doing with my life? ~SARC~

WannaCry 2.0 with no ‘kill-switch’ functionality seems to be making the headlines now…????

One anonymous expert said, “Best thing to do is unplug your computer!”

Now that is smarts at its highest level…

EternalBlue:

Aa collection of hacking tools (EternalBlue) created by the NSA and then subsequently dumped by a hacking group calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” over a month ago. Is the root of this issue. So we knew it would happen… Didn’t we?

Now the cry about WannaCry is patch your computer! Patch it now and patch it fast! Why did you not patch in the first place and dammit patch that system, you lazy asses…

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Anyone asking why this has become so important right now and not when EternalBlue went wild? Something is going on and we will not like the end results…. Well at least I will not like the results, you may not even think about it until your Facebook dies…

We should expect chaos upon chaos to rule until you are so confused that you do not even remember that America is the reason this all started…

I promise I will not forget!

WtR

“Ta-ra-ra Boom–de–ay“
I promise nothing but happy days…
“Ta-ra-ra Boom–de–ay“
Patch your computer and you’re safe to play…

“Ta-ra-ra Boom–de–ay“

A zero-day vulnerability tool, covertly exploited by US intelligence agencies and exposed by the Shadow Brokers hacking group has been blamed for the massive spread of malware that infected tens of thousands of computer systems globally…

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Seriously? We (USA, NSA) play these games? What could go wrong?

Oops! Looks like “wrong” has happened…

I am sure soon we will hear, “Russia Did It!” ~SARC~

WtR

Russians like coffee, but Russians LOVE Tea…

Russians think IKEA is a wonderful place to shop…

Russians embrace winter like many embrace summer…

Russians say, “The importance of Russian laws are countered by the lack of desire and enforcement to follow those laws.” (Thus Russians are free!)

Russians could care less about racism, off color jokes and many other politically incorrect and or rude things; But never talk bad or joke about their parents… Never…

Drinking is important to a Russian so when you toast at drink time as a foreigner; say, “Za Vas! (zuh vahs; – To you!)” Forget saying. “На здоровье! (Na zdorov’ye; – To your health!”) the latter works if a Russian says it and you are not Russian…

Russians believe and they are correct that women are weaker than men; Thus a man who allows a woman to carry something heavy is no man!

Burping and Farting in public is a taboo thing in Russia, but if you do, then do not excuse yourself. That is worse then if you burped in the first place and no one will acknowledge that you burped anyway…

Try this for a tidbit…

• B is pronounced like p.

• V is pronounced like f.

• G is pronounced like k.

• D is pronounced like t.

• Zh is pronounced like sh.

• Z is pronounced like s.

Russia: Tea or Chai as Russians Call It!

Did I say Russians love tea?

I will jot down more as the weeks go by…

WtR

Freight train leaves NE China for Belarus, running through Mongolia, Russia in 16 days #XinhuaTV pic.twitter.com/c0BOlu3TW7

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) May 11, 2017

The Western Empire has been reduced to just a game of checkers and chaos:

This is a stage of the empire dying and not a good stage for the world. While we point fingers at everyone else and blame everyone else for our issues, China, Russia and the literal entire east world is walking a straight line to the future…

All the while the MSM keeps tooting the horn of, “We are number 1,” as we find ourselves looking around at the facts. Wether you ignore the facts and or listen to them means nothing, time is changing and the wind has shifted direction…

We use to walk that glorious line toward the future, yet now the biggest thrill we seem to have in the news, beside war, is a private, but corruptly financed, space program. NASA use to be something, that meant something and now we have played another game and allowed a backdoor financial issue to finance SpaceX and we act like it is 100% private…

Corporations are government predisposed, even if they say they are not. In America, hand in hand is the only way that companies like Facebook and SpaceX survive. All part of the corruption game…

I do not care what you think about China, Russia and the East in general…

I will simply tell you that time moves on and as we sit in a past Cold War stupor, the East is progressing, as we falter and sink. We need to worry less about coverup and more about becoming great again…. China is now sending a train once a week to Belarus. This is called the the drip in a faucet, that soon becomes a stream, as time relentlessly churns onward and onward…

Remember something:

Just because the Mainstream Media says it is so, does not make it so!

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker. — Ben Edwards

When the dollar rules our information, we do not have information we have a hoax and that makes us dupes…

Fact is:

China shipping directly to Belarus is a big deal and that train is part of the new future in the world. Maybe America needs to be part of that future?

WtR

It is snowing, raining and cold cold cold…

That is Russia for you…

Happy Victory Day…

WtR