Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Wikileaks

So WikiLeaks does a big expose on the CIA and the corporate (and corrupt) press tries to make it about Russia?


I'm so sick of Politico, the Washington Post, et al.

 ZERO HEDGE notes:

A total of 8,761 documents have been published as part of ‘Year Zero’, the first in a series of leaks the whistleblower organization has dubbed ‘Vault 7.’ WikiLeaks said that ‘Year Zero’ revealed details of the CIA’s “global covert hacking program,” including “weaponized exploits” used against company products including “Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.”


WikiLeaks tweeted the leak, which it claims came from a network inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.


Among the more notable disclosures which, if confirmed, "would rock the technology world", the CIA had managed to bypass encryption on popular phone and messaging services such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. According to the statement from WikiLeaks, government hackers can penetrate Android phones and collect “audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.”


Another profound revelation is that the CIA can engage in "false flag" cyberattacks which portray Russia as the assailant. Discussing the CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group, Wikileaks' source notes that it "collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.


How awful.

And how awful that the ridiculous corporate press tries to distract from reality with nonsense about Russia.



This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


Tuesday, March 7, 2017.  Chaos and violence continue, Hayder al-Abadi plays dress up, the so-called 'resistance' reveals how hollow they really are . . .


Day 141 of The Mosul Slog.


 2 hours ago

Iraqi, Kurdish, and ISIL forces in battle for control of Mosul. The map below shows who controls what for now:





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Note the results above.


It took US forces how long to get to Baghdad in 2003?

And they were foreign forces.

140 days later and Mosul's still not liberated.


But propaganda requires that Hayder al-Abadi parade around.




 5 hours ago

PM Has arrived to city, Historic visit because his NEXT visit will be to announce the city completely liberated.


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Short, squat, rolly-polly Hayder dresses up and plays soldier.


What does the prime minister have to be proud of?

The Islamic State still controls portions of the area (see map above) and all Hayder's done is make clear he didn't prepare for refugees.

He told the civilians to stay in Mosul, remember?

Here's what they saw.


 7 hours ago

Many Mosul residents like this grandma have been displaced by the fighting between ISIS and the Iraqi military.


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Not since Bully Boy Bush played dress up under a banner reading MISSION ACCOMPLISHED has a leader




 5 hours ago

Iraqi PM arrived in this morning to check up on the troops fighting , great gains this morning


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Moving over to US President Donald Trump and immigration.  He's released a new executive order putting immigration on hold for a variety of countries.

Unlike the previous list, Iraq isn't on this one.

So you'd think a number of Americans would be happy.

We've had to endure laughable stories about how this was a slap in the face to the Iraqi forces (who have no need to come to the United States -- but let's not point out the obvious apparently), we've had to endure chest beating about how this translator or that translator walked on water (without ever noting that all of those cases were supposed to be decided years ago), we've had whining about optics.

And now that the new list doesn't include Iraq?


Oh look, it's bed wetter Domenico Montanaro from NPR:



 19 hours ago

But... Iraq... isn't... one... of... the six... countries...


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He apparently missed all of NPR's stories previously where they insisted Iraq shouldn't be on the ban.




Before the next Tweet is shared below, WARNING: KEEP YOUR CHILDREN AWAY FROM THIS PERV.  NEWSWEEK's Kurt Eichenwald is known for giving kiddie porn performers thousands of dollars and then calling them liars when they reveal that face.



 21 hours ago

Travel ban is stupid & counterproductive. But ISIS is mostly in Syria & Iraq. And the new one Trump just issued excludes Iraq. Super-genius.

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All of that whining -- yes, whining -- about Iraq being on the original order and now this?


Certainly suggests that the issue was not Iraq but, in fact, their daily outrage against Donald Trump.


And then there's the increasingly unhinged Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch.



 1 hour ago


Wrong! 113 were released by Bush, only 9 by Obama, according to US Director of Naitonal Intelligence.



122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!

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"Wrong!"

That Barack only released X?


That's really not what we've been fighting with our opposition to the gulag.

But then you've always been fighting for Barack Obama and not human rights.

You've just made that more obvious over the last few months.

Long before The Debra Messings began humiliating themselves daily, I was on record noting that a number of people should not have Twitter.

I only stand by that remark even more so today.



There are many things to protest under Donald Trump's leadership.

This getting your panties in a twist multiple times a day about everything?

It's not helping anyone.

Not only do you look dangerously unhinged, you make the real issues we should be protesting seem unimportant and trivial.

You also reveal yourself to not be about human rights but instead just a partisan activist who will protest anything Donald Trump says.

That's what the new executive order reveals.

Partisans had a fit about Iraq being on the first one.

Did they mean it?

Some apparently did not because now they're whining about Iraq not being on this one.

A message is being absorbed by most Americans right now: A nutty group will protest anything Donald Trump does.

That makes it that much harder for real activists to sway opinion when it's needed.


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    Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Everyone gets a car!" tells us what we could expect with a campaigning Oprah.

    From Bloomberg News:

    Russian hackers are targeting U.S. progressive groups in a new wave of attacks, scouring the organizations’ emails for embarrassing details and attempting to extract hush money, according to two people familiar with probes being conducted by the FBI and private security firms.
    At least a dozen groups have faced extortion attempts since the U.S. presidential election, said the people, who provided broad outlines of the campaign. The ransom demands are accompanied by samples of sensitive data in the hackers’ possession.
    In one case, a non-profit group and a prominent liberal donor discussed how to use grant money to cover some costs for anti-Trump protesters. The identities were not disclosed, and it’s unclear if the protesters were paid.


    That is hilarious.


    All those Democratic Party organs caught coordinating and being exposed.

    It's a violation of their non-profit status.

    It also goes to the hypocrisy involved.

    I say end the non-profit status.

    It's a form of soft money and corruption.

    This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


    Monday, March 6, 2017.  Chaos and violence continue, The Mosul Slog continues, Kenneth Roth sees joy where others see anguish, and much more.


    It's day 140 of The Mosul Slog.  For any who missed it, the 'big success' of the weekend was taking control of a bridge.


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    US-backed Iraqi forces announce capture of Mosul's al Hurriya bridge in a new push to drive out ISIL fighters


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    'Success.'

    Or that's what some are desperate to claim and/or see.

    Reality?






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    Tens of Thousands Displaced as Iraqi Forces Near Mosul City Center -








    The refugees are increasing.


    As we noted at THIRD in "Editorial: The Mosul refugee problem is whose fault?," the Iraqi government feels this is the fault of the United Nations.




    Above is a photo of Jassem Mohammed Al Jaff, the Minister of Displacement and Migration.  And he's blaming the United Nations for the refugee crisis.  As his title indicates, he's actually the person who should be planning for refugees.

    Maybe that's why he's blaming the United Nations?


    What explains what people see?


    It's a question worth asking when you examine two Tweets.


    Here's Human Rights Watch's Ken Roth:






    Tears of joy and relief as man with daughter escapes ISIS-contolled part of Mosul, Iraq.


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    Here's the same photo Tweeted by someone who doesn't have Ken Roth's complicated recent history of whoring.





    This is Iraq.

    A father & daughter screaming in despair, while fleeing fighting in Mosu.


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    Does Ken want to stand by that joy claim?

    Because no one else is seeing it.

    Maybe you're confused by the photo.  Here's a closer take of the photo.





    40,000 displaced from Mosul as Iraqi forces near old city via

    12:34 AM - 6 Mar 2017

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    Those are not tears of joy.

    As we've repeatedly said for months now, Roth is allowing politics to cloud his judgments.

    He's the only one seeing tears of joy in that photo.

    What he should be seeing is shame in his own reflection.

    He's gone around the bend, completely nuts, his Twitter feed is as out of control as US President Donald Trump's Twitter feed.


    The photo was taken by REUTERS' Goran Tomasevic and is one of at least four photos of the father and daughter that Tomasevic took.  In no caption to these photos has REUETERS claimed tears of joy.  Only Ken Roth sees that.


    While he goes full on nuts, Human Rights Watch issues an alert which includes:

    “While politicians in Baghdad are discussing reconciliation efforts in Iraq, the state’s own forces are undermining those efforts by destroying homes and forcing families into a detention camp,” said Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “These families, accused of wrongdoing by association, are in many cases themselves victims of ISIS abuses and should be protected by government forces, not targeted for retribution.”





    Benjamin Hall (FOX NEWS) spoke with Iraqi Vice President Ayad Allawi:

    “America has lost a lot of potential friends here in the region. … and this is something that the new administration has to address.”
    Obama’s principal error, says Allawi, was his disengagement from a country and a region which desperately needed U.S. support. At a time when Iraq couldn’t stand on its own, Obama left -- leaving a vacuum for Iran to fill. Iran’s new influence, he says, is behind much of the bloodshed.

    “When our American friends left Iraq in 2011 they never laid down the issues that would strengthen the Iraqis to face the challenges ahead -- their sudden withdrawal in 2011 without the necessary preparation left us many problems to face.


    To be clear, FOX NEWS is confused about Allawi.  Both on air and in their write up, they have the wrong time period for when Allawi was prime minister.  From June of 2004 to May of 2005 was when Ayad Allawi was prime minister.


     Benjamin Hall:  In 2010, he won the election, he had more seats, but the Obama administration pressured him to hand over power to the Maliki government -- the Iranian-backed Maliki government.  He says that that was the turning point, that was when things changed.  Yes, I think he probably could have been a unifier.  He talked openly about working with Sunni and Shia and Kurds and we know how the Maliki government ended up being very close to Iran, very sectarian.  And so he says -- and I tend to agree with him -- that was the turning point in the country.


    And Ayad Allawi is correct.

    It's a shame that this turning point took place with the western press ignoring it.

    But that's what they did.  Especially in the United States, where the corporate press defined their mission as selling Barack Obama.

    If a journalist managed to get the truth in print, it was in a book.  And then, though they might have been media darlings when Bully Boy Bush occupied the White House, in the days of The Cult of St. Barack, flesh peddlers like Charlie Rose couldn't find their numbers suddenly.

    The FOX NEWS report is actually disappointing.

    Was Ayad Allawi that circumspect or was a decision made not to really go into details?

    Allawi wasn't just pressured by then-Vice President Joe Biden to concede.  There's also the issue of The Erbil Agreement -- the US-brokered contract.  Barack personally called Allawi to get him to return to the Parliament and gave his  promise that The Erbil Agreement would be honored.

    It wasn't.

    And Barack didn't do a damn thing but act like he'd never heard of The Erbil Agreement.

    Unlike FOX NEWS, we covered all of that in real time, as it happened.


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