The Democratic National Committee attempted to conceal details of a fundraising arrangement with Hillary Clinton that channeled money out of state Democratic parties 

Politico reports that during one three-month period while Democratic primaries were still going on, state parties got to keep less than one half of one percent of the $82 million raised through the arrangement.

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DNC Betrayed Bernie Sanders and the Rest of America

The leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee apparently confirmed what they have said all along — that the political system was rigged against their candidate in favor of Hillary Clinton.

Top Democrats essentially dismissed Sanders as a viable candidate during the primaries, attempted to undermine him with voters and even took steps to derail his campaign, according to hacked emails that were recently made public by WikiLeaks.

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(When Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned because of the Wikileaks release that showed the DNC was sabotaging Bernie's campagin, Hillary's immediate reaction was to co-opt DWS into her presidential campaign. A clear signal showing all the dogs that have been loyal to Clinton, that they will get their share of bread crumbs.)

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz(DWS) was co-chair of Clintons 2008 presidential run. DWS is now chair of the DNC, she needed to be in order to guarantee a Clinton nomination. To get the position of head of the DNC, Sen. Tim Kaine had to step down. What did DWS and Clinton offer him in return? THE VICE PRESIDENCY.

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Election Justice USA released an almost 100 page report on the Democratic Election....

Based on this work, Election Justice USA has established an upper estimate of 184 pledged delegates lost by Senator Bernie Sanders as a consequence of specific irregularities and instances of fraud. Adding these delegates to Senator Sanders’ pledged delegate total and subtracting the same number from Hillary Clinton’s total would more than erase the 359 pledged delegate gap between the two candidates.

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WikiLeaks releases hacked DNC voicemails

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/289541-wikileaks-r...

WikiLeaks on Wednesday released a number of voicemail message recordings that were purportedly stolen from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The voicemails were included in the trove of DNC emails that WikiLeaks released last week, which many believe were stolen by Russian hackers.

The emails showed Democratic officials coordinating efforts to undermine Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign. The fallout from the leaks led to the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who will step down at the end of the Democratic National Convention this week.

Many of the voicemails were messages of callers leaving their numbers in hopes of being called back or innocuous greetings.

But multiple messages came from voters upset that the DNC was giving too much support to Sanders.

One caller with an Arizona area code called to blast the DNC for putting Sanders surrogate Cornel West on the platform drafting committee.

“I’m furious for what you are doing for Bernie Sanders,” another caller says in a message. “He’s getting way too much influence.

“What I see is the Democratic Party bending over backwards for Bernie,” adds the caller, who threatens to leave the party if the DNC doesn’t stop “coddling” the Vermont senator.

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Reid: DNC never gave Sanders a ‘fair deal’

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/289532-reid-...

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says Bernie Sanders never got a fair chance from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

“Bernie really had a movement out there, and it wasn’t right to treat him that way,” Reid said Wednesday from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, according to The Huffington Post.

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“I knew — everybody knew — that this was not a fair deal,” he added.

Reid said outgoing DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz wasn't impartial during the Democratic primary.

“Debbie Wasserman Schultz, she’s always been good to me,” he said of the Florida House Democrat. "I like her just fine.

“I know she’s tried hard, but as some people probably know, I thought Bernie deserved somebody that was not critical to him. So I’m sorry she had to resign, but it was the right thing to do. She should have done it sooner.”

Reid also said Democrats don't have a backup plan if anything damaging about their presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, emerges in future email leaks.

“No,” he said.

WikiLeaks last week published a trove of 20,000 DNC emails from last January to late May of this year.

Some of the messages showed top DNC officials seemingly planning to undermine Sanders's presidential campaign. The leak only intensified the tensions between Wasserman Schultz and the Vermont senator's supporters, many of whom accused her of tilting the primary in favor of Clinton.

Wasserman Schultz announced Sunday she would resign after her party’s convention ends this week.

Sanders has moved to unify the party after an at-times bitter primary fight with Clinton. In a speech Monday, he urged his supporters to back Clinton. And on Tuesday, he moved for Democrats to nominate Clinton for the presidency, a gesture of party unity.

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BREAKING: Hillary Just Received The Worst Possible – Putin Is Smiling!

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/breaking-hillary-just-received-w...

Hillary Clinton broke the law and put America’s national security at risk by using a private home email server to transmit top secret information.

Now, we’re just about to find out how serious Hillary Clinton’s crimes were!

Russia’s Kremlin now has in their possession at least private 20,000 emails from Hillary Clinton’s poorly protected server, and they are debating if they should be released.

They stumbled onto these messages while monitoring Romanian computer hacker Lazăr Lehel, who is better known as “Guccifer.” They were watching him closely after he failed to hack into the internet network for Russia’s RT television network.

While Hillary thought she cleaned off her server and deleted the most damning emails, Russia may release the messages! This changes the 2016 Presidential election in a big way:

A couple of years later, in 2016, the US then brought in Guccifer for questioning related to this incident. According to the report, NBC news knew why Guccifer was being questioned but withheld this information from the American public.

The Associated Press reported in October 2015 that “Hillary Clinton’s private email server maintained in her home while serving as secretary of State was possibly hacked by Russia-tied authorities, and others, on five separate occasions.”

The AP report noted that investigators discovered among Clinton’s cache of released emails malicious software aimed at transmitting data to three overseas computers, including at least one in Russia. This malicious software was reportedly activated by clicking on it; but in October it was not clear if Clinton actually opened these messages or not, per the AP.

Recently separate reports have come out noting that Guccifer had indeed hacked Clinton’s emails. Now according to this latest report, Clinton’s server was not only compromised by Guccifer but also by Russia. Guccifer told FOX News last week that he hacked Hillary’s homebrew server and so did at least 10 others.

These emails contain sensitive data, and could incriminate Hillary Clinton by detailing just how she used the Clinton Foundation to accept bribes from foreign governments. These emails are devastating, and Hillary can’t be happy that Russia now has the full archive. This could lead to an arrest and criminal conviction of the Democrat presidential nominee!

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Democrats in turmoil over leaking of 20,000 emails on eve of convention

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d8ddee0e-5168-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef.html

The head of the Democratic National Committee has resigned after the leaking of 20,000 emails exposed rifts in the party leadership, throwing Hillary Clinton’s election campaign into turmoil on the eve of this week’s convention.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC chairwoman, said on Sunday that she would be stepping down at the end of the convention in the wake of the leaks that have cast both her and her office in a negative light amid campaigning for the US presidential election.

Ms Wasserman Schultz will open and close the event but by the end of the week her duties are to be taken over by Donna Brazile, a longtime Democratic operative and alumna of Bill Clinton’s White House.

The resignation comes in the wake of a growing scandal over the DNC’s closeness to the Clinton campaign during the primary — a time when the committee is supposed to be impartial — and threatens to overshadow the first days of the convention and the news that Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, will endorse Mrs Clinton on the convention stage.

Last month the DNC reported that it had been hacked by what it believed were Russian government hackers, who had gained access to the committee’s email system for up to 12 months. The committee’s emails are now slowly being released to the public by WikiLeaks, which published an initial trove of 20,000 on Friday.

In a statement, Ms Wasserman Schultz said she would be stepping down to better focus on serving as Mrs Clinton’s surrogate in Florida, where she is one of the state’s representatives to Congress. But she did not directly address the leaks or some of the specific emails that have gained attention.

In one message sent on May 21, Ms Wasserman Schultz suggested that it was not worth responding to a particular claim by Bernie Sanders, who at the time was fiercely campaigning against Mrs Clinton for the Democratic nomination. “He isn’t going to be president,” she said of Mr Sanders.

Everyman roots of Clinton’s running mate could strengthen Democratic ticket

In another email, a DNC staffer suggested planting a story about the problems that had plagued Mr Sanders’ campaign.

“Wondering if there’s a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never had his act together, that his campaign was a mess,” Mark Paustenbach, a DNC communications officer, wrote to Luis Miranda, the DNC’s communications director.

Mr Sanders, who has been calling for months for Ms Wasserman Schultz to resign, said he was not surprised by the content of the emails. “I told you a long time ago that the DNC was not running a fair operation, that they were supporting Secretary Clinton,” he told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.

On ABC, Ms Brazile said she had already apologised to the Sanders campaign this weekend for the emails, many more of which were still to be released.

“The allegations, the emails, the insensitivity, the stupidity needs to be addressed,” she said. “This is not just a one-day leak. There will be a substantial number of emails that I understand will be leaked over the next couple of days, weeks, months.”

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC chairwoman, is stepping down at the end of the convention

Robby Mook, Mrs Clinton’s campaign manager, suggested on Sunday that the leak of the DNC emails on the eve of the convention could be an effort by Russia to give a boost to Donald Trump, the Republican candidate who has often sounded sympathetic to Moscow.

“What’s disturbing to us is that experts are telling us Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails, and other experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump,” Mr Mook told CNN.

They have made $22m from the education industry since 2010 but such connections may blight her White House bid

Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, said the saga over the emails underscored the claim by Mr Trump that the Democratic primary process was rigged. Speaking at an event in Philadelphia, he said that “when you rig a system . . . this kind of outcome is inevitable”.

On Sunday, protesters were already staging rallies not far from the convention site. On social media some supporters of Mr Sanders were demanding that he revoke his endorsement of Mrs Clinton following the DNC leaks.

Among the speakers at the four-day convention are Mrs Clinton’s newly announced running mate Virginia senator Tim Kaine, as well as senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Cory Booker of New Jersey. The latter three all made it on to the shortlist of Mrs Clinton’s vice-presidential choices.

Mr Bloomberg, a registered independent, will also give a primetime address endorsing Mrs Clinton, just months after considering his own independent run at the presidency.

In his speech, Mr Bloomberg is expected to present Mrs Clinton’s candidacy in contrast to Mr Trump’s, of whom he has been fiercely critical. News of Mr Bloomberg’s speech was first reported by the New York Times.

IRS Launches Investigation Of Clinton Foundation

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/26/exclusive-irs-launches-investigat...

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen referred congressional charges of corrupt Clinton Foundation “pay-to-play” activities to his tax agency’s exempt operations office for investigation, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The request to investigate the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation on charges of “public corruption” was made in a July 15 letter by 64 House Republicans to the IRS, FBI and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). They charged the foundation is “lawless.”

The initiative is being led by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican who serves as the vice chairwoman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees FTC. The FTC regulates public charities alongside the IRS.

The lawmakers charged the Clinton Foundation is a “lawless ‘pay-to-play’ enterprise that has been operating under a cloak of philanthropy for years and should be investigated.”

Koskinen’s July 22 reply came only a week after the House Republicans contacted the tax agency. It arrived to their offices Monday, the first opening day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

“We have forwarded the information you have submitted to our Exempt Organizations Program in Dallas,” Koskinen told the Republicans.

The Exempt Organization Program is the division of the IRS that regulates the operations of public foundations and charities. It’s the same division that was led by former IRS official Lois Lerner when hundreds of conservative, evangelical and tea party non-profit applicants were illegally targeted and harassed by tax officials.

Blackburn told TheDCNF she believes the IRS has a double standard because, “they would go after conservative groups and religious groups and organizations, but they wouldn’t be looking at the Clinton Foundation for years. It was as if they choose who they are going to audit and question. It’s not right.”

Blackburn said she and her colleagues will “continue to push” for answers on the Clinton Foundation’s governing policies, including its insular board of directors. She said they also will examine conflicts of interest and “follow the money trail.”

“In my opinion, there’s a lack of good governance, there is the appearance of conflicts of interest, and there are continued questions about the financial dealings,” she told TheDCNF.

House Republicans singled out Laureate Education and Uranium One as two companies that seemed to have paid lavish sums to the Clintons and later received official government benefits.

Laureate hired former President Bill Clinton as “honorary chancellor,” paying him $16.5 million over five years. The Baltimore-based company, which operates for-profit universities in 28 countries, also donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to the foundation’s web site.

While Bill was collecting a paycheck from the company and his wife was secretary of state, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank, invested $150 million in Laureate. It was the largest-ever single IFC investment to an educational company. The United States government is the largest contributor to the IFC. During that same period, the Department of State’s U.S. Agency for International Development awarded $55 million to the International Youth Foundation. Laureate CEO Douglas Becker is on the foundation’s board of directors. International Youth Foundation, the Clinton Foundation and Laureate jointly participated in foundation programs.

A Laureate spokesman denied the quid pro quo charges: “Allegations of any quid pro quo between Laureate, the International Youth Foundation and the Clintons are completely false,” she told TheDCNF, adding, “the IFC’s decision to invest in Laureate had no connection to and was not influenced in any way whatsoever by Hillary Clinton.”

The IFC also awarded $150 million to another company owned by Frank Giustra, a close friend of Bill Clinton. Giustra donated $100 million to create the “Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership” within the Clinton Foundation. The funds went to Pacific Infrastructure, a company in which Giustra had a significant financial stake. The company was to build a port and oil pipeline in Colombia that was strenuously opposed by environmental and human rights groups because the pipeline sliced through five indigenous villages and forcibly displaced the tribes.

Giustra also was an owner in Uranium One, a uranium mining company with operations in Kazakhstan and in the western United States. Giustra wanted to sell a share of the uranium business to Russia’s atomic energy agency, which required U.S. approval, including that of Secretary Clinton. The Russian investment was approved.

Blackburn added that it appeared the Clinton Foundation — which was tax-exempt only to construct and manage Clinton’s presidential library — never got IRS approval to become a tax-exempt global organization with operations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific and the Caribbean.

“In the Clinton Foundation we have a charity that has never filed the appropriate paperwork,” Blackburn charged.

Charles Ortel, a Wall Street analyst who has been investigating the Clinton Foundation, told TheDCNF that the expansion of the foundation into a global giant was not legally approved by the IRS.

“It’s crystal clear in a review of their application that their purposes were narrowly limited, as they should have been, to a presidential archive in Little Rock, Arkansas,” he said to TheDCNF. “End of discussion.”

Blackburn also questions the makeup of the Clinton Foundation’s board of directors, which IRS rules require include independent, arm’s-length board members. The Clinton Foundation board mainly consists of close friends, business colleagues and big donors to the Clintons, as reported by TheDCNF.

“All charities need to guard against incestuous relationships which limit their ability to be objective,” the congresswoman said. “In the Clinton Foundation, we see a lack of diversity within their board.”

Uranium One did not respond to TheDCNF’s request for comment. The Clinton Foundation also did not respond to TheDCNF’s request for comment.

Exclusive: Clinton campaign also hacked in attacks on Democrats

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-democrats-investigation...

A computer network used by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The latest attack, which was disclosed to Reuters on Friday, follows two other hacks on the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, and the party’s fundraising committee for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives.

A Clinton campaign spokesman said in a statement late on Friday that an analytics data program maintained by the DNC and used by the campaign and a number of other entities "was accessed as part of the DNC hack."

"Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside cyber security experts. To date, they have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised," said Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill.

Later, a campaign official said hackers had access to the analytics program's server for approximately five days. The analytics data program is one of many systems the campaign accesses to conduct voter analysis, and does not include social security numbers or credit card numbers, the official said.

The U.S. Department of Justice national security division is investigating whether cyber attacks on Democratic political organizations threatened U.S. security, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The involvement of the Justice Department’s national security division is a sign that the Obama administration has concluded that the hacking was sponsored by a state, people with knowledge of the investigation said.

While it is unclear exactly what material the hackers may have gained access to, the third such attack on sensitive Democratic targets disclosed in the last six weeks has caused alarm in the party and beyond, just over three months before the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election.

Hackers, whom U.S. intelligence officials have concluded were Russian, gained access to the entire network of the fundraising Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, said people familiar with the matter, detailing the extent of the breach to Reuters for the first time.

Cyber security experts and U.S. officials said earlier this week they had concluded, based on analysis of malware and other aspects of the DNC hack, that Russia engineered the release of hacked Democratic Party emails to influence the U.S. presidential election.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Friday it was "aware of media reporting on cyber intrusions involving multiple political entities, and is working to determine the accuracy, nature and scope of these matters."

"The FBI takes seriously any allegations of intrusions, and we will continue to hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace," the agency said in an emailed statement.

The hack did not involve the private email system Clinton used while she was secretary of state.

RUSSIAN HACKERS

The new disclosure to Reuters that hackers gained access to the full DCCC network means they would have had access to everything on the network from emails to strategy memos and opposition research prepared to support Democratic candidates in campaigns for the House.

The hack of the DCCC, which is based in Washington, was reported first by Reuters on Thursday, ahead of Clinton’s speech in Philadelphia accepting the Democratic party’s nomination.

Russian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

Several U.S. officials said the Obama administration has avoided publicly attributing the attacks to Russia as that might undermine Secretary of State John Kerry’s effort to win Russian cooperation in the war on Islamic State in Syria.

The officials said the administration fears Russian President Vladimir Putin might respond to a public move by escalating cyber attacks on U.S. targets, increasing military harassment of U.S. and allied aircraft and warships in the Baltic and Black Seas, and making more aggressive moves in Eastern Europe.

Some officials question the approach, arguing that responding more forcefully to Russia would be more effective than remaining silent.

The Obama administration announced in an April 2015 executive order that it could apply economic sanctions in response to cyber attacks.

TRUMP ON EMAILS

The hack on the DNC, made public in June, led to WikiLeaks publishing more than 19,000 emails last weekend, some of them showing favoritism within the DNC for Clinton over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned on Sunday as a result, creating a rocky start for the party's convention in Philadelphia this week.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday invited Russia to dig up thousands of "missing" emails from Clinton's time at the State Department, prompting Democrats to accuse him of urging foreigners to spy on Americans.

On Thursday, Trump said his remarks were meant as sarcasm.

Earlier in the week, Clinton campaign senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan had criticized Trump and called the hacking "a national security issue."

Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said on Friday the reported breach showed cyber security is "a problem wherever Hillary Clinton goes. Hopefully this time there wasn't classified or top secret information that puts American lives at risk."

In Washington, the DCCC said early on Friday it had hired cyber security firm CrowdStrike to investigate. "We have taken and are continuing to take steps to enhance the security of our network," the DCCC said. "We are cooperating with federal law enforcement with respect to their ongoing investigation."

The DCCC had no additional comment late on Friday. Officials at the DNC did not respond to requests for comment.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat and the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, told CNN on Friday she had not heard about the hack of the Clinton campaign.

But she said: "It wouldn't surprise me. I think it should be pretty clear that both campaigns should be aware that there's a problem out there. Everybody should be cautious."

Former Brazilian president Lula to stand trial on obstruction charges

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/29/lula-da-silva-trial-o...

Judge says sufficient evidence exists that Workers’ party conspired with politicians and businessmen to buy silence of former Petrobras official

A week before Brazil hosts the Olympic Games, a judge has ratcheted up political tensions in the country by ordering former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to stand trial on charges of obstructing justice during a vast corruption investigation at the state-owned oil company, Petrobras.

The court case against the Workers’ party founder – who in 2009 helped to win the Olympic bid for Rio de Janeiro – is likely to cast a shadow over the sporting spectacle and adds to a wave of problems engulfing the country, including a political crisis, the worst recession in decades, pollution fears and the Zika epidemic.

Lula is accused of conspiring to buy the silence of a former Petrobras director, Nestor Cerveró, who was arrested last year as part of the vast – and still ongoing – Lava Jato (Car Wash) investigation into corruption at the state-run oil company.

Ricardo Leite, a federal court judge in Brasília, announced on Friday that there was sufficient evidence to begin criminal proceedings against Lula and six other suspects.

The former president has denied the charges, saying the accusation is based on a mendacious testimony made by former senator Delcídio do Amaral as part of a plea bargain to secure the latter’s switch from jail to house arrest.

“Lula has made it clear in a statement to the attorney general that he never interfered or attempted to interfere with testimony related to Lava Jato,” said a statement from the Lula Institute.

A lawyer for Lula addded: “Lula vehemently denies the claims against him but is not opposed to be investigated in a fair and open manner. In this case, Lula’s lawyers were not asked to put forward a defence. Lula has already testified that he did not try to interfere with the testimonies. Brazil’s judicial system has once again highlighted to the world the challenges of receiving a fair trial in Brazil.”

Along with Lula and Amaral, the defendants list includes Diogo Ferreira (Amaral’s former assistant), banker André Esteves, lawyer Edson Ribeiro, rancher José Carlos Bumlai and his son, Maurício Bumlai.

In an interview with the Guardian earlier this year, Amaral said Lula had asked him to help Cerveró’s family because the former Petrobras director could implicate Bumlai, a rancher and an associate who served as a go-between in negotiations between politicians and oil company officials.

“Look, is there any way we can help Bumlai,” Amaral recalls Lula telling him at a meeting in Brasília. The solution they reached, the former senator says, was that Bumlai’s family would help Cerveró’s family with legal fees. The sum – at least 250,000 reais ($77,000) – was paid with the help of the banker Esteves, then one of Brazil’s richest men. Amaral was later secretly recorded trying to arrange Cerveró’s escape.

The former senator predicted his testimony would soon lead to the arrest of the former..., who was once his ally.

Lula has been under growing legal and political pressure. He was detained for questioning and his home and offices were raided by police in March. Two months later, his successor, Dilma Rousseff, was suspended from the presidency while she undergoes an impeachment trial in the senate on unrelated charges of fiscal irregularities.

Adored as one of the most popular leaders in the world when he left office in 2010, Lula told the Guardian last month that he is the victim of a political witch-hunt that is designed to stop him running again for the presidency in 2018.

He claimed Amaral was lying to secure his release. “He’s built a fantasy narrative to help himself,” he says. The senator denies this and stands by his testimony.

Lula and the other defendants have been given 20 days to present their defence. The trial will take place in Brasília and be presided over by Leite, a judge who was mired in controversy last year when prosecutors asked for him to be withdrawn from a tax fraud case because he was impeding the investigation.

Earlier this week, Lula’s legal team filed a petition with the United Nations human rights committee claiming he was the victim of abuse of power in the corruption case. But that process related to a different legal challenge against him in Curitiba.

Although the former president has not been jailed, the prospect of a trial may further divide the country ahead of the Olympics, which open in Rio de Janeiro next Friday.

Next leak will lead to arrest of Hillary Clinton – Assange

https://youtu.be/nB9u9dSQVkc

While many are blaming Russia for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) email leak, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says there is no evidence to suggest that the DNC was hacked by the Russian government. Furthermore, Assange claims the next leak will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton. RT correspondent Laura Smith has the report from London.

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Julian Assange says “1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton’s collection” proves she sold weapons to ISIS in Syria

Democracy Now, Assange:

https://youtu.be/vnWWgKxWvtY

"So, those Hillary Clinton emails, they connect together with the cables that we have published of Hillary Clinton, creating a rich picture of how Hillary Clinton performs in office, but, more broadly, how the U.S. Department of State operates. So, for example, the disastrous, absolutely disastrous intervention in Libya, the destruction of the Gaddafi government, which led to the occupation of ISIS of large segments of that country, weapons flows going over to Syria, being pushed by Hillary Clinton, into jihadists within Syria, including ISIS, that’s there in those emails. There’s more than 1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton’s collection, that we have released, just about Libya alone."

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2013: US Senator Rand Paul Destroys Hillary Clinton Over Benghazi-Gate During Capitol Hill Press Conference

https://youtu.be/jriU_cPU9Vk

Transcript:

Sen. Rand Paul: My question is, is the US involved in any procuring of weapons, transfer of weapons, buying, selling anyhow transferring weapons to Turkey out of Libya?

Hillary Clinton: To Turkey? I’ll have to take that question for the record. That’s, nobody’s ever raised that with me.

Sen. Rand Paul: It’s been in news reports that ships have been leaving from Libya and that they may have weapons. And what I’d like to know is, that annex that was close by, were they involved with procuring, buying, selling, obtaining weapons and were any of these weapons being transferred to other countries? Any countries, Turkey included?

Hillary Clinton: Well, Senator you’ll have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annex. And, I will see what information was available.

Sen. Rand Paul: You’re saying you don’t know?

Hillary Clinton: I do not know. I don’t have any information on that.

Soros hacked, thousands of Open Society Foundations files released online

More than 2,500 files from the raft of organizations run by billionaire George Soros have been leaked by hackers.

Mysterious Group Hacks The NSA

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-15/mysterious-group-hacks-nsa

The latest hack revealed over the weekend has nothing to do with the Democratic Party or George Soros, and instead a mysterious hacker group by the name “The Shadow Brokers” claims to have hacked the Equation Group - a government cyberattack hacking group associated with the NSA, and released a bunch of the organization's hacking tools. The hackers are also asking for 1 million bitcoin (around $568 million) in an auction to release more files.

“Attention government sponsors of cyber warfare and those who profit from it!!!!” the hackers wrote in a manifesto posted on Pastebin, on GitHub, and on a dedicated Tumblr.

• How much you pay for enemies cyber weapons? Not malware you find in networks. Both sides, RAT + LP, full state sponsor tool set? We find cyber weapons made by creators of stuxnet, duqu, flame. Kaspersky calls Equation Group. We follow Equation Group traffic. We find Equation Group source range. We hack Equation Group. We find many many Equation Group cyber weapons. You see pictures. We give you some Equation Group files free, you see. This is good proof no? You enjoy!!! You break many things. You find many intrusions. You write many words. But not all, we are auction the best files.
  

In February 2015, Ars Technical dubbed The Equation Group "the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered." According to Kasperky, the "Equation Group" is a threat actor that surpasses anything known in terms of complexity and sophistication of techniques, and that has been active for almost two decades."  While Kaspersky Lab stopped short of saying it’s the NSA, its researchers laid out extensive evidence pointing to the American spy agency, including a long series of codenames used by the Equation Group and found in top secret NSA documents released by Edward Snowden. The Equation Group, according to Kaspersky Lab, targeted the same victims as the group behind Stuxnet, which is widely believed to have been a joint US-Israeli operation targeting Iran’s nuclear program, and also used two of the same zero-day exploits.

The global "victims" of the Equation Group are laid out in the map below: it is no secret that the group is not particularly enthused by either Iran or Russia.

It is this secretive hacker collective that the "Shadow Brokers" claimed to have hacked, and allegely stole some of its hacking tools. They publicized the dump on Saturday, tweeting a link to the manifesto to a series of media companies.

According to Motherboard, the dumped files mostly contain installation scripts, configurations for command and control servers, and exploits targeted to specific routers and firewalls. The names of some of the tools correspond with names used in Snowden documents, such as “BANANAGLEE” or “EPICBANANA.” The hackers have released 60% of the files they claimed to have taken from the Equation Group. The Shadow Brokers said they would release the remaining data to the highest bidder in a Bitcoin auction (they’ve received three bids so far). If they received an extraordinary 1,000,000 Bitcoins, worth roughly $560 million, they would release all the files.

A review of the files revealed what appear to be vulnerabilities and exploits for some widely-used firewalls — network security technologies that aim to block digital snoops from entering. Suiche posted a handy rundown of the products affected. He said at the very least the exploits for the Cisco products included “real code” designed specifically to take control of the firewalls. “It’s not automatically generated or something like that.”

Alongside those alleged exploits were implants — malware that is covertly dropped on the network once the firewall and other security mechanisms have been bypassed. There were also some scripts and basic instructions for the malware’s usage.

While it was initially unclear if the data is legitimate, some security experts agree that it likely is. 

“The code in the dump seems legitimate, especially the Cisco exploits … and those exploits were not public before,” said Matt Suiche, founder of UAE based cybersecurity start-up Comae Technologies. “The content seems legit.”

“If this is a hoax, the perpetrators put a huge amount of effort in,” the security researcher known as The Grugq told Motherboard. “The proof files look pretty legit, and they are exactly the sorts of exploits you would expect a group that targets communications infrastructure to deploy and use.” Claudio Guarnieri, an independent security researcher who’s investigated other hacking operations by the Western intelligence agencies, said that the files might be from a hacked NSA server used in an operation. He also cautioned that this is a preliminary analysis and that more analysis is needed.

The most recent file is dated June 2013, though the hackers could have tampered with the dates. Dmitri Alperovitch, the co-founder of security firm CrowdStrike, theorized that “the leakers were probably sitting on this information for years, waiting for the most opportune time to release.” CrowdStrike is best known for immediately 'concluding' that all recent hacks of Democratic-linked servers have been under the guidance of the Kremlin.

A Kaspersky Lab researcher declined to comment. Another Kaspersky Lab researcher noted on Twitter that there is “nothing” in the dumped files that links them to the Equation Group, but some of their names are from the ANT Catalog, an NSA hacking toolset published by Der Spiegel in late 2013. It’s worth noting that while the files dumped by The Shadow Brokers might not have a direct connection with the Equation Group, they could come from a different operation that those seen by Kaspersky Lab.

The Shadow Broker claimed to have gotten the files by following Equation Group “traffic,” hacking the group and finding its “cyber weapons.” (The hackers did not respond to a request for comment, and neither did the NSA.)

As Motherboard concludes, while the motives behind this dump are unclear, if legitimate, this could be one of the most shocking hacks ever.

As of Monday afternoon, the Bitcoin wallet where the hackers accept auction offers has received three offers so far; it has a long way to go to reach 1 million. If this hack is confirmed to be indeed of an NSA-related organization, we assume much more leaks will follow, even if the payment will ultimately take place behind the scenes.

As for the origins of the new "mysterious" hacker group, speculation is already rife that Russians are (again) behind it. However, as Forbes notes, whatever the alleged hack’s origins, the NSA does have something to worry about: Someone is out to embarrass the agency and might have the tools to do just that at a particularly heated time in US politics. The agency should, of course, have a response plan. Snowden managed what the Shadow Brokers are shooting for on a far greater scale.

Hacking group offers ‘stolen NSA cyber-weapons’ in bitcoin auction

https://www.rt.com/usa/356081-hackers-nsa-spying-tools/

A hacking collective calling itself ‘Shadow Brokers’ claims to have hacked an NSA affiliate and obtained a set of US government spying and surveillance tools – which it is now willing to auction off for at least half a billion dollars in Bitcoin.

Over the weekend the so-called Shadow Brokers collective released “samples” of the files the group said belonged to the Equation Group, which is believed to be a National Security Agency's (NSA) affiliate.

The Equation Group, a collection of hackers, has previously been accused by the Kaspersky Lab of using techniques and tools very similar to those of the NSA. In 2015 Kaspersky Lab called the group “a threat actor that surpasses anything known in terms of complexity and sophistication of techniques, and that has been active for almost two decades.”

While the authenticity of the files that were released on August 13 on Github is yet to be confirmed, the Shadow Brokers promised to release the “best files” to the top bidder in a Bitcoin auction. The collective seeks to raise 1,000,000 bitcoins, worth roughly $560 million.

“We follow Equation Group traffic. We find Equation Group source range. We hack Equation Group. We find many many Equation Group cyber weapons,” the hacker collective wrote in a post on Tumblr that has since been taken down. “We give you some Equation Group files free, you see. This is good proof no? You enjoy!!! You break many things. You find many intrusions. You write many words. But not all, we are auction the best files.”

While the authenticity of the files that were released on August 13 on Github is yet to be confirmed, the Shadow Brokers promised to release the “best files” to the top bidder in a Bitcoin auction. The collective seeks to raise 1,000,000 bitcoins, worth roughly $560 million.

“We follow Equation Group traffic. We find Equation Group source range. We hack Equation Group. We find many many Equation Group cyber weapons,” the hacker collective wrote in a post on Tumblr that has since been taken down. “We give you some Equation Group files free, you see. This is good proof no? You enjoy!!! You break many things. You find many intrusions. You write many words. But not all, we are auction the best files.”

The files released for free over the weekend, to which Github has since disabled access, appear to be from late 2013, after the famous Edward Snowden revelations. The first set included a number of tools, which according to various experts are might indeed be capable of hacking network gear such as routers and firewalls made by Cisco, Juniper, and Fortinet.

Top secret files previously leaked by Edward Snowden disclosed some of the methods and tools used by the NSA to spy on their targets. Some code words in the latest leak, which included “BANANAGLEE and JETPLOW”, match the words in the Snowden documents, Foreign Policy reported.

After Github moved to censor the released source codes, WikiLeaks announced that it “had already obtained the archive of NSA cyber weapons released earlier today and will release our own pristine copy in due course.”

The latest cyber threat to US national secrets comes in the footsteps of a series of disclosures of emails and documents belonging to the Democratic Party. While cybersecurity experts and the Democrats have accused Russia of hacking into the Democratic National Committee, a hacker calling himself Guccifer 2.0 has surfaced to claim responsibility for the recent hacks that shook the US political elite.

While the NSA is yet to comment on the latest leak, experts agree dthat the new set of files should be taken seriously.

“It’s at minimum very interesting; at maximum, hugely damaging,” CEO of the security firm Immunity Dave Aitel and a former NSA research scientist told FP . “It’ll blow some operations if those haven’t already been blown.”

“I think it’s hard to say at this stage whether the files are genuine, but they are an elaborate hoax if not, by someone who has spent a lot of time going through Snowden documents to sprinkle codenames into the files,” a security researcher, calling himself Pwn All The Things told Business Insider.

Dmitri Alperovitch, CTO of security firm CrowdStrike in a series of tweets, said that the latest leak will further jeopardize the US elections.

“No doubt that further leaks will continue and contribute to the chaos of this already way too weird election. I think there is plenty of reasons to be concerned that the election itself would be manipulated,” Alperovitch tweeted. “The claim from a credible hacking source of such manipulation could be enough to cast shadow on the legitimacy of elected president.”

"The data appears to be relatively old; some of the programs have already been known for years," and are unlikely "to cause any significant operational damage," researcher Claudio Guarnieri told Reuters. Meanwhile, Matt Suiche, founder of UAE-based security startup Comae Technologies, concluded the tools looked like they "could be used."

Bam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6q9LOubfc

http://abcnewsgo.co/2016/08/breaking-hillary-may-end-up-in-jail-aft...

Election

ABC NEWS

BREAKING: Hillary May End Up In Jail After All – All Thanks To Trey Gowdy

Trey Gowdy’s exchange with FBI Director James Comey about his get out jail free pass to Hillary Clinton is one for the record books. In one fell swoop, Gowdy exposed both Comey and Hillary. And it appears Gowdy has bigger judicial plans for Crooked Hillary.

Ukraine Mentioned 370 Times in Soros Email Leak

http://stalkerzone.org/ukraine-mentioned-370-times-soros-email-leak/

Aug 16, 2016

Unknown hackers hacked into the database of the Soros Foundation and posted more than 2500 files of the organization on the Internet. The documents published on the website DCLeaks.com cover the period from 2008 to 2016 and related to different aspects of the activity of the billionaires organisation.

Ukraine is also mention in the papers of the organisation, and quite frequently – 370 times. Among the files there are documents concerning the organisation of Euromaidan, a shorthand report of activist meetings with the representatives of the “Resurrection” Fund and US ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, as well as materials about a planned George Soros meeting with the leader of “Svoboda” Oleg Tyahnybok and others. It “unexpectedly” turns out that the insinuation of “Kremlin Propaganda”, that Euromaidan was not a spontaneous release of the people to the streets in a uniform rush, but was directed by western organizations, is at least partly confirmed.

Many documents concern the delivery of grants to the Ukrainian mass media, organizations, and certain journalists. For example, in one document it is proposed to allocate $500,000 a year for “technical assistance” to such media as the TV channel Hromadske and websites such as “Crimea, Realities and Ostrov”.

Much more at link above….

"Published on Jun 2, 2015

A Ukrainian hacker group claim to have emails that implicate billionaire George Soros in attempting to get involved in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia over the past year. Soros allegedly says that America should provide military hardware to Ukraine and try to adjust the perception of financial stability in the region. Alexey Yaroshevsky has more from New York City."

https://youtu.be/YEDiCfoo8II

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https://www.rt.com/usa/355919-soros-hacked-files-released/

.....George Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, political activist and author who is of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry and holds dual citizenship. He drives more than 50 global and regional programs and foundations. Soros is named an architect and a sponsor of almost every revolution and coup around the world for the last 25 years. The USA is thought to be a vampire due to him and his puppets, not a lighthouse of freedom and democracy. His minions spill blood of millions and millions of people just to make him even more rich. Soros is an oligarch sponsoring the Democratic party, Hillary Clinton, hundreds of politicians all over the world. This website is designed to let everyone inside George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and related organisations. We present you the workplans, strategies, priorities and other activities of Soros. These documents shed light on one of the most influential networks operating worldwide.

http://soros.dcleaks.com
http://soros.dcleaks.com/view?div=europe

“There are serious concerns about further unrest connected to a counter-demonstration to be organized by the governing party… and a follow-up event by the opposition two days later to memorialize the victims,” Soros says. “The prospect of tens of thousands of people entering the streets in an already inflamed political environment bodes ill for the return of public order and the country’s fragile democratic process,” he adds. “I believe two things need to be done urgently,” he adds. “1. Bring the full weight of the international community to bear on Prime Minister Berisha and opposition leader Edi Rama to forestall further public demonstrations and to tone down public pronouncements. 2. Appoint a senior European official as a mediator.”

Soros suggested three candidates: Carl Bildt, Martti Ahtisaari, and Miroslav Lajcak, saying all “have strong connections to the Balkans.” “The US and the EU must work in complete harmony over this, but given Albania’s European aspirations the EU must take the lead,” he stressed, adding that his foundation in Tirana was “monitoring the situation closely and can provide independent analysis of the crisis.” Several days after the email was sent to Clinton, the EU did send one of Soros’ suggested nominees, Miroslav Lajcak, to meet Albanian leaders in Tirana to try to mediate an end to the unrest, Reuters reported.
Good video that lays it all out quite well regarding Clinton, Soros, Libya, Ukraine, Syria, Albania.

Caveat: Can’t say I agree with all the views of this poster, but in this video he does lay out quite well the current email connections between Soros and Clinton and to their wars/overthrows. I believe that if we want to reveal the crimes and lies of the Deep State that we have to come together and put our political subservience to the wayside.

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Soros gave Clinton step-by-step instructions on how to tackle Albania unrest – WikiLeaks email

https://www.rt.com/usa/355639-soros-clinton-albania-wikileaks/

Here are the top three most shocking revelations from the Soros hack:

3. George Soros had a hand in manipulating the media coverage surrounding Ukraine in 2014. 

In a memo titled, “The Ukraine Debate in Western Europe,” the Soros-funded Open Society Initiative for Europe discussed manipulating media coverage of the 2014 coup in Kiev, in order to influence public opinion in Europe and to gain support for a “New Ukraine.”

2. George Soros funded the Black Lives Matter movement to the tune of $650,000.

After Freddie Gray died at the hands of Baltimore police in April 2015, the Open Society Foundation saw the resulting protests against police brutality as a way to push their own agenda by contributing heavily to the Black Lives Matter movement.

One report for the foundation claimed, “recent events offer a unique opportunity to accelerate the dismantling of structural inequality generated and maintained by local law enforcement and to engage residents who have historically been disenfranchised in Baltimore City in shaping and monitoring reform.”

1. The Open Society Foundation planned to take advantage of the on-going refugee crisis in Europe.

In a memo titled, “Migration Governance and Enforcement” two OSF officials discussed a program called the International Migration Initiative, which aims to influence immigration policy. It stated that, “The current refugee crisis is creating space to reconsider the governance of migration and the international refugee regime.”

The memo claimed that while it deliberately avoided the term “global governance,” the Soros-funded foundation believed the crisis in Europe presented “new opportunities” to influence global immigration policies, and to make the refugee crisis the “new normal.”

In the coming days, you are probably going to watch the mainstream media spin this story to focus on Russian hackers, or on who is responsible for leaking the information. That’s why it’s even more important to focus on the questions that have come out of this leak, such as: what do we know now that we didn’t know before, what theories have been confirmed, and how do we stop billionaires like George Soros from manipulated media and grassroots movements to push global initiatives?

Britain’s top human rights lawyer who represented Julian Assange and worked alongside George Clooney’s wife Amal dies in apparent suicide

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/1138414/britains-top-human-r...

Leaked memo shows how George Soros planned to overthrow Vladimir Putin and destabilise Russia

http://theduran.com/leaked-memo-shows-how-george-soros-planned-to-o...

The recent DC Leaks, of over 2,500 documents from George Soros NGOs, has shed a bright light on how the billionaire uses his vast wealth to create global chaos in an never ending push to deliver his neo-liberal euphoria to the peasant classes.

While Soros has managed to thoroughly destabilise the European Union by promoting mass immigration and open borders, divided the United States by actively funding Black Lives Matters and corrupting the very corruptible US political class, and destroyed Ukraine by pushing for an illegal coup of a democratically elected government using neo-nazi strong men…one country that Soros has not been able to crack has been The Russian Federation.

Russia’s political pragmatism and humanist value system rooted in a traditional, “nation-state” culture most likely infuriates Soros.

Russia is Soros’ white whale…a creature he has been trying to capture and kill-off for nearly a decade.

Unfortunately for Soros (and fortunately for the entire planet) the Russian government realised the cancerous nature of Soros backed NGOs, and took the proper preventative measures…which in hindsight, and after reviewing the DC Leaks memos, proved to be a very wise move.

On November 30th 2015, Zerohedge reported,

Russian Prosecutor General’s Office issued a statement in which it recognized George Soros’s Open Society Institute and another affiliated organization as “undesirable groups”, banning Russian citizens and organizations from participation in any of their projects.

–prosecutors said the activities of the Open Society Institute and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation were a threat to the foundations of Russia’s Constitutional order and national security. They added that the Justice Ministry would be duly informed about these conclusions and would add the two groups to Russia’s list of undesirable foreign organizations.

According to RT, prosecutors launched a probe into the activities of the two organizations – both sponsored by the well-known US financier George Soros – in July this year, after Russian senators approved the so-called “patriotic stop-list” of 12 groups that required immediate attention over their supposed anti-Russian activities.

The Law on Undesirable Foreign Organizations came into force in early June this year. It requires the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Foreign Ministry to draw up an official list of undesirable foreign organizations and outlaw their activities. Once a group is recognized as undesirable, its assets in Russia must be frozen, its offices closed and the distribution of any of its materials must be banned. That said, it is doubtful that Soros still has any active assets in Russia – his foundation, which emerged in Russia in its early post-USSR years in the mid-1990s, wrapped up active operations in 2003 when Putin cemented his control on power.

The huge document tranche released by DC Leaks shows how dangerous the Open Society and George Soros were to the well being and preservation of the Russian Federation and the Russian culture.

In a document from November 2012 entitled, “OSF [Open Society Foundation] Russia Strategic Planning Meeting Notes”, Participants:

Leonard Benardo, Iva Dobichina, Elizabeth Eagen, Jeff Goldstein, Minna Jarvenpaa, Ralf Jürgens, Elena Kovalevskaya, Vicki Litvinov, Tanya Margolin, Amy McDonough, Sara Rhodin, Yervand Shirinyan, Becky Tolson

Discuss how to …

Identify joint priorities for OSF’s Russia activities in the coming year. How can we most effectively collaborate, considering the deteriorating political environment for our partners?

The main revelation of the document minutes comes from the hope that Medvedev’s years as president would provide the NGOs the “opening” they would need to finally break the Russian bear.

That all evaporated in 2012, when Vladimir Putin returned to the President’s office.

The OSF, clearly distraught and disappointed, begins to lay down the groundwork for how to challenge the Putin administration, in light of his very different approach to dealing with NGOs like the Open Society Foundation.

The human rights context has greatly changed from 2006 to 2012: the Medvedev period allowed for a number of improvements and significant openings for NGOs. Amendments to the NGO law in 2006 led to campaigning on behalf of NGOs; many of our grantees benefited during this period. Surkov established ties with many groups that were willing to cooperate with the state and our partners served as experts in key processes like police reform. A space was created for modernization and for the inclusion of civil society during Medvedev’s term. However, pressure has come back very quickly in the short time that Putin has been back in power.

A major turning point for NGO operation in Russia came with the botched Russian “Maidan like” protests, which were promptly dismantled before any damage could be inflicted.

The Russian protests deeply affected the life of NGOs. The state had been providing money for self-organization, thinking this would defuse the possibility of large-scale opposition. But by encouraging self-organization, they had opened up a Pandora’s Box. People became active and began to feel that it was possible to change something; the door was opened for self-mobilization.

The state has responded with repression and political prisoners, in order to instill fear in the population. The state is also working to undermine social support for the protests. Its support of socially-oriented (“good”) NGOs is a way to divide the community, while the foreign agents law frames the protests as foreign money undermining Russia.

Why the fascination with Russia? Why is it important for OSF to focus on Russia? With Russia comes immense wealth and tremendous geo-political power.

Key open society themes and issues are highly relevant in Russia
– Transparency and accountability (anticorruption)
– Rights and justice (i.e., criminal justice, policing, rule of law, LGBT, women’s rights)
– Migration
– Inclusive education (disability, Roma)
– Media freedom, access to information
– Health (access to medicines, HIV, harm reduction)

Copy-cat problem: Russian tactics are picked up by Central Asia (ie, anti-extremism law in Kazakhstan)

Russia’s influence in UN Human Rights Council – pushing resolution that says human rights should take into consideration traditional values of country in question – very few HR orgs that are following the council saw this coming – has large implications beyond Russia

Participation in global international regimes (G20, ICC, WTO) – a more open Russia creates changes in international governing bodies

European Court litigation

The document details in an extensive bullet point list, “what must be done” to destabilize Russia, focusing on many recurrent neo-liberal themes that Soros uses to infect host nations and overturn governments…

– Political prisoners (Bolotnaya, etc.)
– Media censorship and control (pressure in independent media – work w/ NMP)
– Surveillance
– LGBT (push against propaganda laws, which are driven by local officials, not by the federal gov’t)
– Women’s rights
– Disability rights and inclusive education

Prisons
– Lots of funding is going to monitoring; where is our money best placed?
– ONKs don’t have sufficient $ for travel and legal representation

Policing and police violence (Public Verdict, Man and Law, etc.)
Migrants

Transparency and accountability
– State spending – monitoring, analysis
– Tracking cross-border transactions and business purchases
– Connections between accountability, human rights, and ordinary citizens’ interests

The complete PDF document can be found here:
-Russia-russia strategic planning 2012-meeting notes-russia strateg...

Following the 2012 document, and the apparent disappointment expressed by OSF members at Russia’s resistance to the neo-liberal way of life, DC Leaks provides a follow up memo entitled, “Russia Project Strategy, 2014-2017”. 

The document summary…

Russia today faces a regrettable backsliding into authoritarian practice. Confronted with serious domestic challenges, the regime has become more insular and isolationist, seeking to solidify its base. The progressively draconian laws promulgated since Putin’s return to the presidency have placed all foreign- funded organizations under threat of isolation and disrepute. Despite these decidedly challenging conditions, it is essential that we continue to engage Russia, both to preserve its extant democratic spaces, and to ensure that Russian voices do not go dark on the broader global stage.

The destabilization of Russia, now aptly named, “the Russia Project” goes on to identify three cornerstone concepts…

Amid the grim landscape, there nonetheless remain apertures for the Russia Project’s intervention. Exploiting all available opportunities, we will undertake the following three concepts, which we deem vital in the current climate:

1)  We will mitigate the negative impact of new laws via domestic and international advocacy. Key allies in this regard are the growing numbers of diverse Russian citizens opposing the country’s regression, along with the sizeable community of Russian legal experts with an in-depth knowledge of NGO law and a strong motivation to help the sector continue its activities.

2)  We will integrate Russian voices into the global exchange of ideas. Given that Russian intellectuals, practitioners and activists are increasingly sidelined domestically, and academics are often isolated from the international community, we will support venues for inserting diverse, critical Russian thinking into the global discourse. Such opportunities allow Russian actors to enter into mutually beneficial collaborations on topics ranging from migration to digital activism, thus maintaining their relevance and reducing their provincialization.

3)  We aim to mainstream the rights and dignity of one of Russia’s most marginalized populations: LGBT individuals. The RP’s diverse network of partners provides an opportunity to build a broader base of civil society allies at a time when the LGBT community is under profound threat. We hope to see a more balanced discourse on LGBT rights among the Russian public, as well as a strong cohort of mainstream independent organizations actively incorporating LGBT interests into their work.

Social mobilisation and the funding of alternative media networks, to promote social discourse and dissatisfaction, are common tactics that Soros NGOs uses to build up towards a revolution.

Along with these initiatives, we remain committed to supporting three primary fields: (a) access to justice and legal empowerment of marginalized groups, (b) access to independent information and alternative media, and (c) platforms for critical debate, discussion, and social mobilization. The RP plans to provide core support to our trusted partners in each of these fields, investing in their growth and development, and remaining flexible about the funding arrangements necessary to allow them to continue their essential work. We also seek to strengthen their legitimacy and financial sustainability, in order to build a more transparent, effective, and organizationally efficient third sector.

Russia is currently in a gradual, arbitrary, and haphazard process of becoming more closed. Amid this background, the RP’s cardinal role is to create a dense and wide-ranging field of independent civil society actors, who can in the best case help set the agenda for a more open and democratic future in Russia, and in the worst case survive the effects of new draconian legislation.

Engaging with Russian diaspora who oppose the current government, and mobilising the LGBT community through mass media propaganda, are recurrent themes in the Soros document.

The media focus on LGBT rights in the run up to the Sochi winter olympics was an opportunity not to be missed by Soros.

In the short to mid-term, the RP aims to engender broader civil society support for this highly marginalized group. Even though the “propaganda of homosexuality” law has gained unprecedented international attention in the lead-up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the voices of Russian activists are barely being heard over larger international LGBT organizations. We want to make sure that our Russian partners have a leading role in shaping the strategy of the international movement, that planned campaigns have a domestic rather than just an international focus, and that the momentum gathering around Sochi does not dissipate immediately after the Olympics end.

Our comparative advantage lies in the deep and wide networks that we have fostered these past years. A strategic use of these networks will maximize the long-term impact of the work that LGBT rights organizations are doing. LGBT rights groups in Russia are professional and effective, yet they lack the capacity to reach far beyond their immediate communities and galvanize other civil society players necessary for their long-term success.

Destabilisation of a country the size of Russia does not come without a significant price tag, for which George Soros seems more than ready to pony up…

Given the large number of grants in the RP portfolio, we see a need for additional staffing in order to implement our strategic priorities and effectively monitor our activities. However, as a number of programs in the Eurasia region are being restructured, we are awaiting the results of this transition before making any substantive recommendations.

Their can be no doubt that the 2014-2017 plan outlined by Soros NGOs, which even envisioned staff growth and Eurasian region restructuring, has hit a major speed bump with the 2015 law that saw these divisive forces operating within Russian finally get booted out of the country.

The complete PDF document can be found here:
-Russia-Russia Project Revised 2014 2017 Strategy.pdf

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Two years earlier these were his statements...

George Soros Slams Putin, Warns Of "Existential Threat" From Russia, Demands $20 Billion From IMF In "Russia War Effort"

‘Dr. Drew’ show canceled days after host’s negative speculation about Hillary Clinton’s health

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/26/dr-dr...

Court Orders Hillary to Answer Questions Under Oath

http://www.newsmax.com/TomFitton/court-frcp-orders-request/2016/08/...

Unlike Hillary Clinton and her allies in the Obama administration, federal courts tend to take the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) quite seriously.

Late last Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s granted us permission to submit interrogatories to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and to depose the former Director of Information Resource Management of the Executive Secretariat (“S/ES-IRM”) John Bentel.

The court order reads: "the State Department shall release all remaining documents responsive to Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act request by no later than September 30, 2016; and it is further ordered that, consistent with Rule 33 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Judicial Watch may serve interrogatories on Secretary Clinton by no later than October 14, 2016 . . . Secretary Clinton’s responses are due by no later than thirty days thereafter . . . Judicial Watch may depose Mr. Bentel by no later than October 31, 2016."

In his opinion Judge Sullivan writes: "The Court is persuaded that Secretary Clinton’s testimony is necessary to enable her to explain on the record the purpose for the creation and operation of the clintonemail.com system for State Department business."

On July 8, Judicial Watch submitted a request for permission to depose Clinton; the director of Office of Correspondence and Records of the Executive Secretariat Clarence Finney; and Bentel. The request arises in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit before Judge Sullivan that seeks records about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, former deputy chief of staff to Clinton.

The lawsuit was reopened because of revelations about the ClintonEmail.com system (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State).

Though we still think an in-person deposition is appropriate, we are pleased by the court’s authorizing us to learn more about Clinton’s email practices from Clinton — under oath.

We will move quickly to get answers. If things stay on track, we should have answers from Clinton, under oath, by the end of next month.

This decision is a reminder that Hillary Clinton is not above the law and that at least one federal court thinks she hasn’t answered all the outstanding questions about her emails.

Facebook satellite lost in SpaceX explosion at Cape Canaveral

https://www.rt.com/usa/357893-spacex-explosion-platform-launch/

At the 1:11 mark you see something (a UFO?) abruptly fly into the window frame; & then the explosion ensues.

The satellite AMOS-6 was built by Israel's main aerospace & aviation manufacturer--Israel Aerospace Industries--wholly owned by the government of Israel. The purpose was purportedly to provide Facebook with broadband access over Africa. Interestingly enough, the predecosser, AMOS-5 lost contact on Decemeber, 2015.

Secondary explosions were also heard on the scene.

Actually there is something that flies at the same speed at the 1:00 mark on the bottom of the screen. So perhaps its an insect? idk...

While clicking frame by frame anomalous flying objects appear!  The first shows up before SpaceX explodes at 1:09.  Multiple objects appear to be behind the towers while traveling.  Some make unusual turns and such.

https://youtu.be/_BgJEXQkjNQ

FBI Releases Documents in Hillary Clinton E-Mail Investigation 

See https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/50utmo/fbi_releases_docu... for various reports on this.

The email scandal that has dogged Hillary Clinton erupted again as it was revealed she blamed concussion for failing to remember briefings on how to preserve classified government records.

The front-runner in the US presidential election also admitted brazenly discussing future drone strikes against terrorists on her unsecure email account, and narrowly avoided opening a link to a pornographic website which could have seen her fall victim to Russian hackers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/02/hillary-clinton-says-cou...

Clinton to FBI: Didn't know parenthetical 'C' stood for classified

Hillary Clinton told the FBI that she thought classification markings in the paragraphs of her emails at the Department of State were to organize messages in alphabetical order, according to the FBI’s newly released report on her private email server.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/294323-clint...

Clinton Used Eight BlackBerrys, but FBI Couldn’t Get Them

The FBI, in a heavily redacted summary of its probe released on Friday, said Clinton flouted security standards for official communications by relying on private e-mail for government business.

In addition to the eight devices she used as secretary of state, the FBI said they sought at least five additional mobile devices as part of its inquiry. Clinton’s lawyers said they couldn’t provide any of the mobile devices she used. One person interviewed by the FBI said he recalled two instances in which Clinton’s devices were destroyed by “breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-09-02/fbi-s-clinton...

When the Department of Justice requested 13 devices as part of the investigation, they were unable to be located.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/294325-fbi-r...

Hillary Clinton’s Team Lost a Laptop Full of Her Emails in the Actual Mail

A laptop containing a copy, or “archive,” of the emails on Hillary Clinton’s private server was apparently lost—in the postal mail—according to an FBI report released Friday. Along with it, a thumb drive that also contained an archive of Clinton’s emails has been lost and is not in the FBI’s possession.

Hillary's coughing fit returns (video)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-05/hillary-just-had-one-worst...

http://www.thelocal.ch/20160905/swiss-space-firm-boss-left-badly-in...

Swiss space firm boss left badly injured in violent attack

Published: 05 Sep 2016 13:10 GMT+02:00

The founder and CEO of a Swiss space technology firm, who previously received threats against him, is in hospital with serious injuries after a vicious attack.

Keith Vaz 'to quit' as Home Affairs Committee chair following male prostitute allegations (UK)

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/keith-vaz-quit-home-affairs-committee-chai...

Labour's Keith Vaz is expected to quit as the chair of the influential Home Affairs Committee on Tuesday (6 September 2016) after allegedly soliciting sex with male escorts and apparently discussing illegal drugs with the prostitutes.

The Leicester East MP has held the position since 2007, in which he has advised on legislation around drugs and prostitution.

The married father of two apologised to his wife and children after The Sunday Mirror claimed he recently met with the two male escorts in his north London flat. Vaz, who was first elected to parliament in 1987, has referred the allegations to his solicitor.

Hillary Clinton Started To Cough Violently In Cleveland, Ohio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H133cTro1NQ

More interesting related vids at the user channel...!

The personal driver of Putin died in an accident (or not) - Video

Posted by wikistrike.com on September 6, 2016

http://www.wikistrike.com/2016/09/le-chauffeur-personnel-de-v-pouti...

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&...

CCTV images of the footage taken on Kutuzovsky Avenue in the Russian capital Moscow show how the Mercedes collided head-on with the presidential BMW

The personal driver of Putin died in a tragic (or not) car accident. The images speak for themselves, the official limousine of the President and he had little chance to get away unharmed. A survey independent not everything has just been opened. Question: Was the BMW Kremlin bomb? and if so, who was the real target?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3776086/Vladimir-Putin-s-of...

Elon Musk: "We Have Not Ruled Out" That UFO Caused Space X Explosion

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-11/elon-musk-we-have-not-rule...

@ashwin7002 @NASA @faa @AFPAA We have not ruled that out.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 9, 2016

The statement by the vaunted entrepreneur that he couldn’t rule out that UFO hunters were correct that an unidentified object or weapon initiated the explosion has alien enthusiasts out in full force.

The frenzied excitement for alien hunters hit new heights on Friday when the innovative wunderkind Elon Musk wrote to a commenter on Twitter that "We have not ruled that [a UFO hitting the Space X Falcon 9 rocket] out" with theories ranging from an attack by foreign defense forces to a laser attack by an alien ship quickly cascading through social media.

The statement comes one week after self-proclaimed UFO hunters pointed to video footage from the SpaceX explosion noting that there was a black object barreling near the rocket only seconds before explosion with YouTube viewers quickly dispatching theories that the flying object was a bird or a bug based on the relative speed of the object – over 1,000 MPH – and its appearance behind riggings that ruled out the possibility that it was a bug in the camera lens.

The explosion quickly consumed the rocket destroying Facebook’s AMOS-6 internet-beaming satellite and causing unprecedented damage to the launchpad – a fairly unusual incident for a rocket explosion. Musk said the explosion was "really a fast fire" and was unable to point to specific mechanical causes for the failure of the rocket.

One Twitter user said that the sound at 54 seconds in a video posted "sounds like a metal joint popping under stress" which Elon Musk said was "most likely true" but also said that "we can’t yet find it on any vehicle sensors" pointing to the possibility of some outside sabotage.

"Important to note that this happened during a routine filling operation. Engines were not on and there was no apparent heat source," said Musk questioning how the rocket could spontaneously erupt in flames. "Particularly trying to understand the quieter bang sound a few seconds before the fireball goes off. May come from rocket or something else."

One person suggested that it could be a drone, but opined that if it was a drone it was a particularly fast and circular drone that does not match the description of any known existing defense products. Others opined that whatever the flying vehicle that may have given rise to the explosion, it appears it was a "well planned attack from a competitor."

Although speculation continues to circle around the explosion of the Space X Falcon 9 rockets with the most fascinating theory by far being the potential that space aliens beamed the rocket, many more plausible alternatives exist including a leak of propellant fuel, metal on metal contact sparking just enough initial flame, or a buildup of oxygen. Some commenters are even blaming Vladimir Putin and/or China – which makes maybe less sense than even space aliens.

This had not confirmed in August,  but now appears to be a reality.  Yahoo now automatically requires all users logging in to reset their passwords!

200 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked? What to Do Now

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/200-million-yahoo-accounts-hacked-140000...

Sept 22, 2016

Yahoo, the web portal popular among fantasy football players and free webmail users, may have been the victim of a data breach affecting about 200 million users. Rumors of such a breach surfaced last month, and a Recode report posted early today (Sept. 22) indicated that the company would soon confirm the rumors.

Two Tom's Guide staffers saw a tacit admission that something may be wrong when they tried to log into their Yahoo Mail accounts this morning. Both received suggestions to change their passwords, even on accounts that had two-factor authentication enabled. Have I Been Pwned? administrator Troy Hunt, who collects credentials exposed in data breaches, reported the same thing.

It's still possible that Yahoo was not itself breached, and that the reported 200 million Yahoo accounts were aggregated and sifted from data breaches at other online services, such as those affecting LinkedIn (177 million accounts) and MySpace (360 million accounts).

The alleged malicious hacker who first came forward with the details of the Yahoo accounts — said to include usernames, hashed passwords, birth dates and backup email addresses — told VICE Motherboard last month that the Yahoo data is from "2012 most likely."

Motherboard broke the news Aug. 1 when that hacker, who uses the pseudonym Peace, put the Yahoo data up for sale for 3 Bitcoin (approx. $1,801 US) on The Real Deal online-crime marketplace. Peace earlier this year disclosed the MySpace and LinkedIn data breaches, but it's unlikely that he himself stole that data. The low price he wanted for the Yahoo data indicates that it's probably old, well picked over and no longer worth much to cybercriminals.

In August, Yahoo told Motherboard that it was "aware of a claim," but didn't deny a data breach. Peace replied that "they dont [sic] want to confirm well better for me they dont [sic] do password reset."

Peace also claimed to have "been trading the data privately for some time" before deciding to sell it.

Users who want to protect their accounts should log in to Yahoo.com immediately and take the option to reset their passwords.

Motherboard checked two dozen account credentials supplied by Peace, and discovered that the usernames did correspond to Yahoo accounts. Yahoo apparently protected its user passwords with the MD5 hashing algorithm, for which the first weakness was found in 2005. No company should have been using the algorithm in 2012.

Yahoo is currently trying to sell itself to Verizon, and Recode speculated that news of a massive data breach could sent Yahoo stock tumbling, lowering the cost for Verizon.

Yahoo users who want to protect their accounts should log in to Yahoo.com immediately and reset their passwords. If Yahoo doesn't prompt you to do so, then visit Yahoo's Set a new password page and change the password manually. Users can also use Yahoo Account Key, which eschews passwords in favor of using the Yahoo mobile app to turn smartphones into authentication devices.

As we say every time we report on a massive server breach, never, ever, recycle passwords. If your email address and password have been available on the black market for months, along with a secondary email address, you better not have used those same credentials for online banking or other highly valuable accounts.

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Yahoo probing potential data breach as 200 million user accounts appear on Dark Web

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/yahoo-probing-potential-data-breach-200-mi...

Aug 1, 2016

A hacker using the pseudonym "Peace" has uploaded what purports to be a data dump of 200 million Yahoo accounts to an underground marketplace called The Real Deal. The technology giant, which has not yet confirmed the authenticity of the data, admitted it was "aware" of the potential leak.

The suspected leak comes in the wake of other "mega breaches" at Myspace and LinkedIn that each compromised millions of customer records and were both uploaded by the same cybercriminal. Like prior hacks, usernames, hashed passwords and date of births appear to have been compromised.

Alongside the listing, which was uploaded with a sample of the data, Peace wrote the credentials were "most likely" from 2012 and that passwords in the data dump were hashed with an MD5 algorithm.

At the time of writing, the credentials are being sold for three bitcoins, a form of cryptocurrency that is equivalent to £1,395 ($1,838). Based on the sample, a number of the records correspond with real accounts, while others do not - to be expected for a dataset containing older information.

A Yahoo spokesperson told IBTimes UK via email: "We are aware of a claim. We are committed to protecting the security of our users' information and we take any such claim very seriously. Our security team is working to determine the facts.

"Yahoo works hard to keep our users safe, and we always encourage our users to create strong passwords, or give up passwords altogether by using Yahoo Account Key, and use different passwords for different platforms."

As noted by Vice Motherboard, which first reported news of the potential breach, the firm did not confirm nor deny the data was legitimate. IBTimes UK contacted Peace for comment via The Real Deal however did not receive a response by the time of publication. It remains unclear if Peace hacked Yahoo to get access to the credentials, whether the data was obtained from a secondary source or even if it is simply made up from records taken from other major hacks.

Screenshot of the alleged Yahoo data dump listed for sale on The Real DealIBTimes UK/The Real Deal

Little is known about the individual – or group – behind the Peace persona. However, in one interview given to Wired, he or she claimed to once have been part of a Russian hacking group that targeted major technology firms.

Once the group reportedly split, data dumps from 2012/13 that were previously only shared with an "inner circle" started to appear online. These included 160 million accounts from LinkedIn, 100 million from Russian social media platform VK.com and 360 million from Myspace.

The number has now jumped to the largest breach in world history!  (To put this in perspective,  the entire population of North America is 565million!)

500 million Yahoo accounts breached

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/09/22/report-yahoo-may-conf... theft may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers, Yahoo said....

Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored 

https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/facebook-is-collaborating-with-...

During U.S. Presidential Debate 9/26/2016 Hillary blinks excessively!  In just just over one minute from 9:20-10:56 on CNN Live I counted over 115 times!  During the entire debate probably in the thousands?

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/09/27/clinton-trump-hofstra...

Another instance where Hillary's shoulders begin shaking uncontrollably? (79:02)

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At 3:29 into the debate Hillary drops off something?  Hillary:

"…We also have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee …&?!… Finally equal pay for women’s work. I also want to see more companies do profit sharing."

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Interestingly below, the NY Times video version never shows Hillary while Trump is talking?  Only a few instances do they both appear together from a distance,  the rest are solo! 

http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004673000/full-video...

Yahoo's leak of 500m accounts 'unacceptable', say 'disturbed' senators

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/27/yahoo-leak-500-m...

Six lawmakers question why it took Yahoo two years to discover breach as experts warn of the implications of the record-breaking haul of password data.

Six Democratic US senators on Tuesday said it was “unacceptable” that Yahoo only last week announced a 2014 hack into 500m user accounts and asked embattled CEO Marissa Mayer for more information about the company’s investigation into the data breach.

The lawmakers said they were “disturbed” the two-year-old intrusion was detected so long after the hack occurred. “Millions of Americans’ data may have been compromised for two years,” the senators wrote in a joint letter addressed to Mayer. “This is unacceptable.”...............

.................Yahoo users who recycle the same password across the internet may still be at risk. While people can always change their passwords across all the sites they use, Yahoo’s announcement that some security questions were compromised too means that the risks associated with the breach are likely to linger. A password can be changed – but your mother’s maiden name can’t.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4851064,00.html

Enough is enough
Op-ed: Netanyahu is suffering from mental fatigue. The only way to possibly prevent complete chaos in the future is to enact a law limiting a prime minister in Israel to just two terms in office.

Published: 06.09.16

When the prime minister convenes journalists for private talks, which last four hours or more, and intentionally avoids standard interviews to the press, one bottom line emerges: The prime minister of the State of Israel is a haunted person. He is smart, cynical, a virtuoso of words, but haunted—from his side-styled fringe to the tip of his little fingernail.

When the prime minister takes every opportunity to talk about respect more than he talks about security, when the prime minister is offended by everything that is written about him if it is not a compliment and makes sure that everyone knows he has been offended, then the paranoia takes on statistical significance. But when the prime minister convinces himself that his transportation minister organized a putsch against him and thus paralyzes an entire country, then we all have a problem.

The citizens who missed a workday, who called off meetings, who were packed in lines like sardines, who began sweating even before the sun struck their head, who wasted hours in traffic jams—and the soldiers who returned to their bases on Saturday evening and those who did not make it on time on Sunday—couldn’t care less about the war between the prime minister and the transportation minister.

The hysteria conveyed by Benjamin Netanyahu with his repeated putsch announcements made it seem as if he really thinks there is a coup here.

Granted, the current incident is an example of a radical situation, and more than it suggests that there is something rotten in the Netanyahu kingdom it points to the man's mental fatigue, as talented as he may be. Therefore, it seems the only way to possibly prevent complete chaos, like we witnessed this week, in the future is to enact the law limiting a prime minister in Israel to just two terms in office.

The suggested law, which was initiated by MK Merav Michaeli, leader of the Zionist Union faction, has already been signed by all leaders of the opposition parties, including Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman before he entered the government. Netanyahu himself supported the limitation in the past but opposes the law today, even though it will only be applied from the 22nd Knesset, leaving him with the option of two additional full terms in office.

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Fire breaks out at Prime Minister's Residence+

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4858360,00.html

Published: 22.09.16

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to address the UN General Assembly in New York, firefighters called to the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem after a fire breaks out on the rooftop.

https://www.rt.com/usa/361385-pentagon-pr-firm-terrorist-videos/

          Pentagon paid PR firm $540mn to make fake terrorist videos

NSA contractor arrested for alleged theft of top secret classified information

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/05/nsa-contractor-arre...

Harold Thomas Martin, who worked at same consulting firm as Edward Snowden, may have stolen codes developed to hack foreign governments.

......Martin is said to have had six classified documents obtained from sensitive intelligence and produced by a government agency in 2014.

“These documents were produced through sensitive government sources, methods and capabilities, which are critical to a wide variety of national security issues. The disclosure of the documents would reveal those sensitive sources, methods and capabilities,” the justice department said.

The documents have been reviewed by a government agency and designated as top secret, “meaning that unauthorized disclosure reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the US”, the justice department statement said.

If convicted, Martin faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials and 10 years in prison for theft of government property. An initial appearance was held for Martin in US district court in Baltimore on 29 August and he is still detained.

The arrest is a major embarrassment for the NSA and its contractor Booz Allen coming just three years after Snowden, who worked for both.

The NSA said in the wake of the Snowden revelations in 2013 it had tightened up internal security, introducing more stringent monitoring of staff and a double-checking system in which sensitive information needed two people to access it rather than just one. Highly classified information would no longer be concentrated in one place, making it harder for potential hackers.

The new breach provides fresh arguments for privacy activists who argue that the NSA cannot be trusted to protect all the personal data it gathers, from bank accounts to health records.

Supporters of Snowden quickly made a distinction between him and the motives of the arrested man. They reiterated that Snowden is a whistleblower who leaked top secret material out of principle, believing the NSA was acting unconstitutionally by engaging in mass surveillance.

It was not yet clear what motivated the latest alleged leaker.........

The JASTA bill could also lead to a Zetas Right again? "The 911 holocaust was an inside job to provide an excuse." 

Saudi bill could expose US deep state behind 9/11: Scholar

http://presstv.com/Detail/2016/09/30/486977/911-US-deep-state

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/10/08/breaking-wikileaks-r...

BREAKING: WIKILEAKS RELEASES NEW EMAILS EXPOSING CLINTON’S & PODESTA’S KNOWLEDGE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE

Hillary Clinton Believes Planet X ‘Nibiru’ Exists, Wikileaks Confirms (Oct 16)

http://www.morningnewsusa.com/alien-news-2016-hillary-clinton-belie...

‘I will warn the world about Planet X DISASTER’ Putin's stark warning over mystery world
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin is poised to warn of mankind’s imminent destruction by a mythical planet, according to shocking claims made today.
He apparently pledged to reveal the mysterious planet – also called Nibiru – is on a disaster course to Earth and the US government and others are covering it up.
UFO-hunters have argued for years that Nibiru is hidden away in our solar system and passes close to Earth every 3,600 years during its orbit.
But they say the planet is so big that its massive gravitational pull will trigger humungous earthquakes and natural disasters on the globe when it passes – a threat governments are allegedly hiding to avoid mass panic.
Weight was given to the theory in January when NASA announced the discovery in the solar system of Planet Nine – 10 times bigger than Earth.
Claims that Putin will reveal the “truth” about Planet X were made on conspiracy website someonesbones.com, which alleged he gave an interview with a Russian news agency.
It states: "In a candid interview with Pravda, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated implicitly that he would tell the world about Nibiru if Donald Trump loses the presidential election." Source: dailystar.co.uk

https://nationonenews.com/2016/10/17/wikileaks-just-dumped-everythi...

WikiLeaks Just DUMPED EVERYTHING – This is HUGE – Historic Activity by Wikileaks – Read and Share before it is taken down!

https://archive.org/details/nationalsecurityarchive

https://archive.org/details/nsia-fbi-files

https://archive.org/details/additional_collections

http://www.militarycorruption.com/

GENERAL PLEADS GUILTY TO LYING TO FBI
JAMES "HOSS" CARTWRIGHT (ONCE, OBAMA'S
"FAVORITE GENERAL") ADMITS DECEPTION IN
PLEA BARGAIN AT U.S. FEDERAL COURT
RETIRED MARINE FLAG OFFICER WAS ONCE
VICE-CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
CARTWRIGHT CASE COULD IMPACT ELECTION
FBI REFUSED TO PROSECUTE HILLARY
CLINTON - SHE ENJOYS "DOUBLE-STANDARD"

GENERAL PLEADS GUILTY TO LYING TO FBI
JAMES "HOSS" CARTWRIGHT (ONCE, OBAMA'S
"FAVORITE GENERAL") ADMITS DECEPTION IN
PLEA BARGAIN AT U.S. FEDERAL COURT
RETIRED MARINE FLAG OFFICER WAS ONCE
VICE-CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
CARTWRIGHT CASE COULD IMPACT ELECTION
FBI REFUSED TO PROSECUTE HILLARY
CLINTON - SHE ENJOYS "DOUBLE-STANDARD"

© 2016 MilitaryCorruption.com

In a bombshell development that could impact this year's presidential election, a retired Marine four-star general has admitted he lied to the FBI in an official investigation.

James "Hoss" Cartwright, who was once called "Obama's favorite general," stood before a judge in U.S. Federal Court Washington, bowed his head in shame, and in a chastened voice, told the court: "It was wrong for me to mislead the FBI. I accept full responsibility for my actions."

He had been charged with making false statements during a federal investigation into a leak of classified information. The general deliberately deceived investigators when he denied he was the source of classified information contained in a book by New York TIMES reporter David Sanger.

The journalist focused in CONFRONT AND CONCEAL on a covert cyber attack on Iran's nuclear facilities and the use of a computer virus called Stuxnet to temporarily disable centrifuges the Iranians were using to enrich uranium.

ONCE HE WAS ON TOP

How far the once-mighty have fallen. We urge our readers to be sure to check out our related stories box below. Over the years, we at MilitaryCorruption.com have chronicled Cartwright's escapades, including accusations he had intimate relations with a female aide and ran his mouth about U.S. security issues while drunk on an official military mission to Moscow.

"Hoss sucked up to Obama. Just look at him now," snorted a retired USMC colonel who told us, "he got what was coming to him. Now, I'd love to see Clinton lose the election so that asshole Allen (disgraced former Gen. John Allen, who was a slavish sycophant to Hillary at the recent Democratic National Convention) will be shown up for what he is, a butt-kissing disgrace to the Corps."

Political observers say the Cartwright troubles come at a strange time, just three weeks before the election. The last thing Team Hillary needs is a reminder to the public that two generals - Cartwright and David Petraeus - were prosecuted and punished for crimes that compare with the former secretary of state's endangering our national security by illegally maintaining a private computer server.

Under the plea agreement, Cartwright faces a possible six-month jail term when he is sentenced January 17 of next year. Whether he ends up behind bars or not, it has been a meteoric fall for a mighty general who once held the second most powerful position in the United States military at the Pentagon - vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Will the voters wonder why "Hoss" gets slammed for his lies, while the biggest liar in U. S politics - Hillary Clinton - got a free pass from FBI Director James Comey? We'll find that out November 8th.

This is a strategy group that was set up to monitor Clintons campaign and come up with solutions to better her chances of being elected. Pages 6 and 7 are a doozy. This is in pdf format. Enjoy.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByoBFsAn_OgvUWVqLXZIRFRTUGc/view

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Cyber attacks disrupt PayPal, Twitter, other sites

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-idUSKCN12L1ME

Hackers unleashed a complex attack on the internet through common devices like webcams and digital recorders and cut access to some of the world's best known websites on Friday, a stunning breach of global internet stability.

The attacks struck Twitter, Paypal, Spotify and other customers of an infrastructure company in New Hampshire called Dyn, which acts as a switchboard for internet traffic.

The attackers used hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices that had previously been infected with a malicious code that allowed them to cause outages that began in the Eastern United States and then spread to other parts of the country and Europe.

"The complexity of the attacks is what’s making it very challenging for us," said Dyn’s chief strategy officer, Kyle York. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said they were investigating.

The disruptions come at a time of unprecedented fears about the cyber threat in the United States, where hackers have breached political organizations and election agencies.

Friday's outages were intermittent and varied by geography. Users complained they could not reach dozens of internet destinations including Mashable, CNN, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Yelp and some businesses hosted by Amazon.com Inc.

Dyn said attacks were coming from millions of internet addresses, making it one of the largest attacks ever seen. Security experts said it was an especially potent type of distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, in which attackers flood the targets with so much junk traffic that they freeze up.

VULNERABILITIES EXPLOITED

Dyn said that at least some of the malicious traffic was coming from connected devices, including webcams and digital video recorders, that had been infected with control software named Mirai. Security researchers have previously raised concerns that such connected devices, sometimes referred to as the Internet of Things, lack proper security.

The Mirai code was dumped on the internet about a month ago, and criminal groups are now charging to employ it in cyber attacks, said Allison Nixon, director of security research at Flashpoint, which was helping Dyn analyze the attack.

Dale Drew, chief security officer at communications provider Level 3, said that other networks of compromised machines were also used in Friday's attack, suggesting that the perpetrator had rented access to several so-called botnets.

The attackers took advantage of traffic-routing services such as those offered by Alphabet Inc's Google and Cisco Systems Inc's OpenDNS to make it difficult for Dyn to root out bad traffic without also interfering with legitimate inquiries, Drew said.

"Dyn can't simply block the (Internet Protocol) addresses they are seeing, because that would be blocking Google or OpenDNS," said Matthew Prince, CEO of security and content delivery firm CloudFlare. "These are nasty attacks, some of the hardest to protect against."

GOVERNMENT WARNED OF ATTACKS

Drew and Nixon both said that the makers of connected devices needed to do far more to make sure that the gadgets can be updated after security flaws are discovered.

Big businesses should also have multiple vendors for core services like routing internet traffic, and security experts said those Dyn customers with backup domain name service providers would have stayed reachable.

The Department of Homeland Security last week issued a warning about attacks from the Internet of Things, following the release of the code for Mirai.

Attacking a large domain name service provider like Dyn can create massive disruptions because such firms are responsible for forwarding large volumes of internet traffic.

Dyn said it had resolved one morning attack, which disrupted operations for about two hours, but disclosed a second a few hours later that was causing further disruptions. By Friday evening it was fighting a third.

Amazon's web services division, one of the world's biggest cloud computing companies, reported that the issue temporarily affected users in Western Europe. Twitter and some news sites could not be accessed by some users in London late on Friday evening.

PayPal Holdings Inc said that the outage prevented some customers in "certain regions" from making payments. It apologized for the inconvenience and said that its networks had not been hacked.

A month ago, security guru Bruce Schneier wrote that someone, probably a country, had been testing increasing levels of denial-of-service attacks against unnamed core internet infrastructure providers in what seemed like a test of capability.

Nixon said there was no reason to think a national government was behind Friday's assaults, but attacks carried out on a for-hire basis are famously difficult to attribute.

Meet The Man Who Can Expose "The Real Hillary Clinton Scandal"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-22/meet-man-who-can-expose-re...

We have written frequently about the internal Clinton Foundation power struggle between Chelsea Clinton and Doug Band over the previous couple of weeks (see here, here and here).  It all started back in 2011 when, as Chelsea started to take a more senior role at the Clinton Foundation, she became increasingly concerned about an internal audit that exposed glaring conflicts of interest throughout the Foundation with an emphasis on Doug Band and his company, Teneo, who she thought had inappropriately sought favors from the State Department during Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State.  A Politico article from March 2015, summarized Chelsea's rise at the Foundation and how it threatened some long-time Clinton allies who had grown quite accustomed to the status quo. 

But Chelsea Clinton’s rise at times has seemed to threaten some veteran Clinton aides who had carved out influential—and lucrative—positions after long service with her parents. She is blamed in some quarters for marginalizing both Lindsey and Doug Band, who rose from the president’s body man to build and help run the foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative. A third Clinton veteran, Ira Magaziner, saw his portfolio at the foundation diminished during Braverman’s tenure, and sources say Magaziner’s role remains under scrutiny.

Now, new WikiLeaks emails reveal additional details behind the the man, Eric Braverman, who was brought in as CEO by Chelsea to change the controversial practices of the Foundation but abruptly resigned a short time later after being pushed out by long-time Clinton loyalists who had apparently grown very comfortable with the status quo.

Below is the new email exchange which begins when Neera Tanden warns John Podesta to "keep tabs on Doug Band" who she assumed was the insider who told NBC to "follow the money and find the real HRC scandal."  Interestingly, John Podesta writes back quickly to identify the real source as former Clinton Foundation CEO Eric Braverman which seems to be shocking to Tanden who replies simply, "Holy Moses."

So who is Eric Braverman?  The following excerpts from a Politico article offer the best summary of Braverman and his efforts, as a newly installed CEO, to breakup the Clinton Foundation scandal machine only to be pushed out by Clinton loyalists after only a year and a half in his new position.

In December [2014], the board of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation approved a salary of more than $395,000, plus bonus, for its Yale-educated CEO, Eric Braverman, while voting to extend his board term through 2017, according to sources familiar with the arrangement. Braverman, who had worked with Chelsea Clinton at the prestigious McKinsey & Company consultancy, had been brought in with the former first daughter’s support to help impose McKinsey-like management rigor to a foundation that had grown into a $2 billion charitable powerhouse.

 

But in January, only weeks after the board's show of support and just a year and a half after Braverman arrived, he abruptly resigned, and sources tell  Politico his exit stemmed partly from a power struggle inside the foundation between and among the coterie of Clinton loyalists who have surrounded the former president for decades and who helped start and run the foundation. Some, including the president’s old Arkansas lawyer Bruce Lindsey, who preceded Braverman as CEO, raised concerns directly to Bill Clinton about the reforms implemented by Braverman, according to sources, and felt themselves marginalized by the growing influence of Chelsea Clinton and the new CEO she had helped recruit.

 

The previously untold saga of Braverman’s brief, and occasionally fraught tenure trying to navigate the Clintons’ insular world highlights the challenges the family has faced trying to impose rigorous oversight onto a vast global foundation that relies on some of the same loyal megadonors Hillary Clinton will need for the presidential run sources have said she is all but certain to launch later this year.

 

Already, a spate of recent news stories in  Politico and elsewhere have highlighted questions about the foundation’s aggressive fundraising both before and during Braverman’s tenure, including the  news that the foundation had been accepting contributions from foreign governments with  lax oversight from the State Department when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. The foundation has been Clinton’s main public platform since she left State in February 2013.

 

The hiring a few months later of Braverman, who had been a partner in McKinsey’s Washington office, was seen as validation of Chelsea Clinton’s view that the foundation needed to address recommendations from a 2011 audit for tighter governance and budgeting, as well as more comprehensive policies to vet donors and avoid conflicts of interest.

 

When Braverman arrived to replace Lindsey as CEO, he moved quickly to adopt the auditor’s recommendations, and then some. He diversified the foundation’s board beyond the Clintons and their longtime political allies and restructured its finance department. He oversaw the creation of a $250 million endowment and implemented data-driven analytics to measure the effectiveness of foundation programs.

 

No public explanation was offered for Braverman’s resignation.

Of course, given that the email exchange between Podesta and Tanden, and the following tweet from NBC's Joe Scarborough,  occurred just days after Braverman was relieved of his duties in March 2015 it does seem likely that he was the "source close to the Clintons" who told Ron Fournier "to follow the money and find the real HRC scandal."

"@JoeNBC: A source close to the Clintons tell @ron_fournier to "follow the money" and find the real HRC scandal. http://t.co/lPTQY0L0o4"

Ironically, Braverman's resignation also came shortly after the following email from Huma Abedin showing that Hillary directly approached the King of Morocco to host a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.  In return, the King had promised "$12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting."  Huma concludes her email by saying "she [Hillary] created this mess and she knows it."

So was this the questionable "contribution from foreign governments with  lax oversight" that ultimately caused Braverman to resign?

More importantly, where is Eric Braverman now?  Clearly, at one point, Braverman expressed some interest in exposing the deep corruption within the Clinton Foundation...now, with all of the new WikiLeaks disclosures, would seem like an opportune time to do just that.

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Rumors of a new development?

Kremlin In Turmoil After Clinton Foundation CEO Requests “Urgent And Immediate” Asylum

http://westernsentinel.com/kremlin-turmoil-clinton-foundation-ceo-r...

October 24, 2016

An extraordinary Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today says this morning President Putin was “officially presented” with a Main Directorate for Migration Affairs (GUVM) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) “file for review” relating to a request for “urgent and immediate” political asylum requested by an American citizen named Eric Braverman—who was the former CEO of the Clinton Foundation, and is known as the man who can expose “The Real Hillary Clinton Scandal”. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

Requests for the granting of political asylum in the Federation, this report explains, is regulated by a separate government resolution rather than the Law on Refugees and is issued to those seeking “asylum or protection from persecution or a real threat of becoming ...” in their home country for “social-political activities or convictions that do not contradict t...”—and though Russia has the world’s highest number of asylum applications, political asylum requests are very rarely granted.

In his apparent knowing of these facts, however, this report continues, Eric Braverman, yesterday (23 October), arrived at the Consulate of Russia in New York City and presented his “urgent and immediate” request for asylum on a visa application—as is “protocol/custom” because the Federation does not accept mail or electronic visa applications from residents....

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/28/report-c...    

Report: Congress Considering Emergency Hearing on Reopened FBI Investigation into Clinton Emails

Cameron Joseph, the Washington Bureau Chief for the New York Daily News, has claimed he has heard reports that the House Oversight Committee is considering an emergency hearing with FBI director James Comey next Friday, following the FBI’s decision to reopen the case into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

October 28 2016

In a tweet, Cameron said that “Hearing [Chairman Jason Chaffetz] & House Oversight Cmte are discussing holding a last-min hearing bringing in FBI DIr. Comey next Fri pre-election.”

Congress is currently on recess until after the elections. Calling for an emergency hearing this late before the election on a topic so politically charged is high risk for all sides but could end up dragging this fight out all the way through Election Day.

There have been demands from all sides of the aisle for more answers on this, and Hillary Clinton’s nightmare Friday could turn into a nightmare two weeks at the worst possible moment for her.

Army says 2-star general committed suicide on Alabama base

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/29/army-says-2-star-general-commi...

WASHINGTON –  The Army said Friday it has determined that suicide was the cause of death of a two-star general who was found dead in his home on a military base in Alabama.

Maj. Gen. John Rossi was found dead July 31 at Redstone Arsenal, two days before he was to assume command of Army Space and Missile Defense Command.

He is the first Army general to commit suicide on active duty since record-keeping began in 2000, according to the Army. Military suicides soared earlier this decade and remain a major source of concern; they typically have affected lower-ranking military members.

Rossi, a West Point academy graduate and an air defense artillery officer by training, had just moved onto Redstone Arsenal and was scheduled to be promoted to lieutenant general when he took command of Space and Missile Defense Command.

A written statement by the Army on Friday made no mention of what might have prompted Rossi to take his own life.

General is most senior Army officer to kill self

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/10/28/army-general...

The Army acknowledged Friday that Maj. Gen. John Rossi committed suicide on July 31, making him the highest-ranking soldier ever to have taken his own life.

Rossi, who was 55, was just two days from pinning on his third star and taking command of Army Space and Missile Command when he killed himself at his home at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.

Investigators could find no event, infidelity, misconduct or drug or alcohol abuse, that triggered Rossi's suicide, said a U.S. government official with direct knowledge of the investigation. It appears that Rossi was overwhelmed by his responsibilities, said the official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation.

Rossi himself talked in March about suicide at a conference on preventing troops from killing themselves.

He held up a card from his wallet with photos of 10 soldiers who had died under his command at Fort Sill, Okla. Four of them had committed suicide.

Rossi led off the event by reading the reports of recent suicide attempts to the soldiers at the event, according to a news story on the Army's web site. He told the conference that he received reports of four soldiers per week thinking about or attempting suicide.

“We are ultimately responsible for soldiers both on and off duty,” Rossi said.

ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for August 6, 2016

http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/06ag2016.htm

With scant time to waste, the wealthy elite of Earth wish to use existing launch facilities such as are possessed by the US, Russia, and other high tech countries like India, China, and Japan. This requires cooperation from those in charge, which in the case of the US includes NASA, Congressional oversight, the White House, and the Department of Defense. If cooperation cannot be secured via bribery or threats, then a quick death to force a replacement officer in charge might occur. This is what happened to Maj. Gen. John Rossi.