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Bibi1581 Blog For 10/04/2018: Morning Edition

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1…………Today’s White House Tweets: President Trump

 

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3 hours ago

This is now the 7th. time the FBI has investigated Judge Kavanaugh. If we made it 100, it would still not be good enough for the Obstructionist Democrats.

  1. Retweeted

    10 Nov 2016

    While armed with the power of our Vote, we proudly & peacefully revolted Never doubt this was an American revolution #PresidentTrump

  2. This is a very important time in our country. Due Process, Fairness and Common Sense are now on trial!

  3. 3 hours ago

    Our country’s great First Lady, Melania, is doing really well in Africa. The people love her, and she loves them! It is a beautiful thing to see.

  4. 5 hours ago

    The harsh and unfair treatment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh is having an incredible upward impact on voters. The PEOPLE get it far better than the politicians. Most importantly, this great life cannot be ruined by mean & despicable Democrats and totally uncorroborated allegations!

 

2…………> GRU Caught Red-Handed: PA

 

A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania has indicted seven defendants, all officers in the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), a military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, for computer hacking, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering. According to the indictment, beginning in or around December 2014 and continuing until at least May 2018, the conspiracy conducted persistent and sophisticated computer intrusions affecting U.S. persons, corporate entities, international organizations, and their respective employees located around the world, based on their strategic interest to the Russian government. Among the goals of the conspiracy was to publicize stolen information as part of an influence and disinformation campaign designed to undermine, retaliate against, and otherwise delegitimize efforts of international anti-doping organizations and officials. The victims had publicly exposed a Russian state-sponsored athlete doping program and to damage the reputations of athletes around the world by falsely claiming that such athletes were using banned or performance-enhancing drugs. The charges were announced at a press conference by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania Scott W. Brady, FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Cyber Division, Eric Welling, and Director General Mark Flynn for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

“State-sponsored hacking and disinformation campaigns pose serious threats to our security and our open society, but the Department of Justice is defending against them,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.

“Today we are indicting seven GRU officers for multiple felonies each, including the use of hacking to spread the personal information of hundreds of anti-doping officials and athletes as part of an effort to distract from Russia’s state-sponsored doping program. The defendants in this case allegedly targeted multiple Americans and American entities for hacking, from our national anti-doping agency to the Westinghouse Electric Company near Pittsburgh. We are determined to achieve justice in these cases and we will continue to protect the American people from hackers and disinformation.”

The defendants, all Russian nationals and residents, are Aleksei Sergeyevich Morenets, 41, Evgenii Mikhaylovich, Serebriakov, 37, Ivan Sergeyevich Yermakov, 32, Artem Andreyevich Malyshev, 30, and Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, 27, who were each assigned to Military Unit 26165, and Oleg Mikhaylovich Sotnikov, 46, and Alexey Valerevich Minin, 46, who were also GRU officers. The indictment alleges that defendants Yermakov, Malyshev, Badin, and unidentified conspirators, often using fictitious personas and proxy servers, researched victims, sent spearphishing emails, and compiled, used, and monitored malware command and control servers. When the conspirators’ remote hacking efforts failed to capture log-in credentials, or if the accounts that were successfully compromised did not have the necessary access privileges for the sought-after information, teams of GRU technical intelligence officers, including Morenets, Serebriakov, Sotnikov, and Mini, traveled to locations around the world where targets were physically located. Using specialized equipment, and with the remote support of conspirators in Russia, including Yermakov, these close access teams hacked computer networks used by victim organizations or their personnel through Wi-Fi connections, including hotel Wi-Fi networks. After a successful hacking operation, the close access team transferred such access to conspirators in Russia for exploitation.

 

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-charges-russian-gru-officers-international-hacking-and-related-influence-and

 

 

 

 

 

 

3…………> Hacker, Internet Abuser: MA

 

A Massachusetts man was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for conducting an extensive cyberstalking campaign against his former housemate, her family members, co-workers, friends, and others, including hacking into her online accounts, posting fraudulent sexual solicitations in their names, sending unsolicited images of child pornography, and making over 120 hoax bomb threats.

Ryan S. Lin, 25, formerly of Newton, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William G. Young of the District of Massachusetts, who also ordered him to serve five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Lin pleaded guilty in April 2018 to seven counts of cyberstalking, five counts of distribution of child pornography, nine counts of making hoax bomb threats, three counts of computer fraud and abuse and one count of aggravated identity theft. Lin was arrested in October 2017 and has been held in custody since. As part of Lin’s plea agreement, Lin agreed to be sentenced to a minimum of seven years and a maximum of 17 ½ years in prison. According to admissions made in connection with his plea and evidence presented at sentencing, from about May 2016 through Oct. 5, 2017, Lin engaged in an extensive cyberstalking campaign against a 25-year-old female victim. Lin, the victim’s former housemate, hacked into the victim’s online accounts and devices and stole the victim’s private photographs, personally identifiable information, and individual diary entries, which contained highly sensitive details about her medical, psychological and sexual history, and distributed the victim’s material to hundreds of people associated with her. Lin also created and posted fraudulent online profiles in the victim’s name and solicited rape fantasies, including “gang bang” and other sexual activities, which in turn caused men to show up at the victim’s home.

Lin also created a false social media profile in the name of the primary victim’s housemate in Waltham and posted that he was going to “shoot up” a school in Waltham, stating that there would be “blood and corpses everywhere.” These threats expanded beyond Waltham and became part of an extensive and prolonged pattern of threats to local schools, private homes, businesses, and other institutions in the broader community. Ultimately, Lin pleaded guilty to having made over 100 bomb threats, including 24 in a single day.

 

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/massachusetts-man-sentenced-more-17-years-prison-cyberstalking-former-housemate-and-others

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4…………> Activist Judges vs Trump & Co: Unconstitutional Overreach

 

A United States judge blocked the Trump administration from ending protections that have allowed 300,000 immigrants from four countries to live and work legally in the United States, saying the move would cause “irreparable harm and great hardship” to immigrants from Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti and El Salvador.

The  Judge cites Trump’s rhetoric against Mexican people and African countries, a ruling slammed by the Justice Department, saying it “usurps the role of the executive branch”.

US District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco granted a request for a preliminary injunction against the administration’s decision to end temporary protected status, or TPS, for people from Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti and El Salvador.

 

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-04/donald-trump-plan-to-cut-off-immigrant-protections-blocked-judge/10339070

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5…………> The Bashful Spies: China High-Tech Spooks

 

 

Servers databanks on Apple and Amazon computer networks had been scooped up illegally using tiny chips inserted on server circuit boards made by a company called Super Micro Computer, according to Bloomberg News following a year-long investigation by two of its reporters who uncovered evidence of the wide-ranging attack, which gave Beijing access to 30 large companies and many federal agencies.

Apple, Amazon and Super Micro have rejected Bloomberg’s claims, calling them “untrue”. In particular, saying it had found “no evidence” to support the allegations.

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45747983

 

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 1…………> California Suing: Sessions

In a deliberate legal and political confrontation with the nation’s most populous state, that has repeatedly blocked its plans to step up enforcement actions in the workplace and against criminal aliens, Trump’s DOJ led by AG Jeff Sessions has sued California for using state laws that contradict the “supremacy clause” of the US Constitution.

“The Department of Justice and the Trump Administration are going to fight these unjust, unfair, and unconstitutional policies,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to tell California law enforcement officers.

 “We are fighting to make your jobs safer and to help you reduce crime in America.”

The state’s Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, fired back: “At a time of unprecedented political turmoil, Jeff Sessions has come to California to further divide and polarize America. Jeff, these political stunts may be the norm in Washington, but they don’t work here. SAD!!!


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/06/trump-doj-sues-california-over-interference-with-immigration-enforcement.html

 

2…………> Globalists Exit Trump: Cohn

White House national economic council director Gary Cohn will resign from his post, in yet another high-profile departure from the Trump administration in recent weeks in a sign of opposition to Trump’s planned tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium, after trying to get the president to change course.

“It has been an honour to serve my country and enact pro-growth economic policies to benefit the American people, in particular, the passage of historic tax reform,” Cohn said. 

“I am grateful to the President for giving me this opportunity and wish him and the Administration great success in the future.”

 “Will be making a decision soon on the appointment of new Chief Economic Advisor. Many people wanting the job – will choose wisely!”, the president tweeted.

“I like conflict,” Trump later said in a joint press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven.

“Many, many people want every single job,” Trump said, adding that “there will be people that change,” but said, “Believe me, everybody wants to work in the White House. They want a piece of the Oval Office, they want a piece of the West Wing.”

The White House turnover in its first 14 months has been significant, with Hope Hicks stepping down, the senior communications official Josh Raffel and staff secretary Rob Porter leaving their posts, and finally speechwriter David Sorenson, who left the administration after domestic abuse allegations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gary-cohn-trumps-top-economic-adviser-resigns-amid-differences-on-trade-policy/2018/03/06/8ae89514-2191-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html

 

3…………> Execution Tuesday: Egypt

In 2017, 49 “political prisoners” were hanged in Egypt, more than double the number executed in 2016, mostly convicted on terror-related charges or for attempts to overthrow the state. By the end of February, a court sentenced 21 suspected extremists to death for planning terror attacks, ranking Egypt as sixth globally in the number of people executed, joining China, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, with United Nations expressing a “deep shock” at the rate of executions and lack of due process in military and civilian trials. 

Ismail Khalil does not have any photographs of his son Lotfy, 24, who was hanged along with three other men in a long-running case where they were charged for detonating a bomb, killing three students and injuring two others from the Kafr El Sheikh Military Academy

“As soon as I walked in I saw two people from his case who were executed and Lotfy wrapped in a blanket,” he says, visibly emotional as he describes the harrowing scene. 

“I kissed his forehead, then the other people I knew, going from one corpse to the next, crying and kissing their heads and feet.” 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-06/tuesday-is-execution-day-in-egypt/9512570
 

 

4…………> The “Plastic Holocaust”: World’s Oceans

Scuba diver Rich Horner social media video shows him swimming through a huge “slick” of plastic floating in clear waters at a popular dive spot in Indonesia, frequented by manta rays which come to get cleaned in masses of floating plastic garbage off the coast of Nusa Penida, only some 15 miles of water separating it from the island of Bali and its capital Denpasar. 

Murdoch University researcher Elitza Germanov said microplastics contain toxic chemicals that, if ingested, could alter biological processes in the animals, such as growth, development and reproduction. 

“We are still trying to understand the magnitude of the issue,” Ms Germanov said. 
“Microplastic contamination has the potential to further reduce the population numbers of these species, many of which are long-lived and have few offspring throughout their lives.” 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-06/diver-films-wave-of-plastic-pollution-off-bali-coast/9508662 

 

5…………> The Bashful Spy: Texas

Weldon Marshall, 43, of the Dallas, Texas area, entered a plea today of guilty to one count of unlawfully retaining national defence information while working for a military contractor. 

Marshall served in the U.S. Navy from approximately January 1999 to January 2004, during which time he had access to highly sensitive classified material, including documents describing U.S. nuclear command, control and communications. Those classified documents, including other highly sensitive documents classified at the secret level, were downloaded onto a compact disc labelled “My Secret TACAMO Stuff.” He later unlawfully stored the compact disc in a house he owned in Liverpool. 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-defense-contractor-convicted-unlawfully-retaining-classified-information
 

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