[Daily Caller] Former national security advisor Susan Rice issued a stand down order to national security council officials developing aggressive options to respond to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, a new excerpt from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump reveals.
NSC officials were reportedly alarmed by Russia’s attempts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, including the hacking of Democratic National Committee officials’ emails, and those belonging to Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Michael Daniel, an NSC official responsible for the Russia portfolio, told to the book’s authors of multiple plans to strike fear in Russian President Vladimir Putin with the aim of ending Russia’s election meddling. These plans included surreptitiously releasing personal information about Putin’s family, which revealed corruption in Putin’s political party, and even crafting a large cybersecurity exercise as a public threat to Russia.
Daniel additionally told the authors that when Rice caught wind of his planning, she called him and berated him.
One day in late August, national security adviser Susan Rice called Daniel into her office and demanded he cease and desist from working on the cyber options he was developing. "Don’t get ahead of us," she warned him. The White House was not prepared to endorse any of these ideas. Daniel and his team in the White House cyber response group were given strict orders: "Stand down." She told Daniel to "knock it off," he recalled.
Obama officials have since lamented "we sort of choked" in response to the Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The former president instead took it upon himself to warn Putin in person during a face-to-face meeting in September 2016 to "knock it off" in terms of election meddling with a an explicit warning of consequences if it continued. Emphasis added
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The DNC emails were NOT repeat not "hacked". They were leaked, forensic analysis confirms it. Likely by a disgruntled DNC insider. The russkies had nothing to do with it.
"Disgruntled" or someone paid to release them to support an ongoing narrative....or both. Whichever the case, after Seth Rich the message became unmistakably clear.
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I would think this article is another crude attempt to breath life into the incredible dying carcass of Russian involvement in the election/Russian collusion with Trump.
The only reason Rice would give a stand down order would be to allow her goons to continue their false flag operation to tar Trump as a traitor.
We know from the WikiLeaks dump of CIA hacking tools that one of them allowed you to mimic foreign hackers and even manufacture foreign IP addresses to cover you tracks.
Just remember the only known incident of hacking of voting machines was traced to an IP address in DHS. Someone claimed they were "testing" voting security...right...actually they got caught before they could play with the voting record.
I wonder how many states were hacked from Washington and are running cover for it because all of the election officials are democrap.
[PJ] USA Today journalist Gregory Korte had a chilling experience recently. The reporter got an email with a database containing information on every presidential pardon, going back to George Washington. His source, Northern Illinois University political science professor P.S. Ruckman Jr., was someone with whom he had previously worked.
The reporter had written on President Obama's use of clemency, and Ruckman provided him with some of his findings, which he had painstakingly collected during years of research at the National Archives. For this particular piece, Korte received the President Gerald Ford Foundation Award for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.
Ruckman sent Korte other lists of presidential pardons when the latter was writing about President Trump's pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The two stayed in touch and Korte hoped to one day have access to Ruckman's full database. The professor informed him that he could as soon as he was done with his book on the topic.
Much to Korte's surprise, he recently received the full database in an email from Ruckman. When he tried to contact him to thank him, he got no response. Korte shared on Twitter this week his sad discovery: shortly after Ruckman emailed him, he killed his two sons, and then himself, at their home.
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Well, anyone can snap, but that rural village where Ruckman lived and worked is very civilized and held a great potential future for his sons. Something seems amiss. I have to wonder if his research on pardons had led him to something else.
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According to comments, it was Marriage problem. He was older and married an ex-student or something, she wanted out. He snapped. Lets not make a mountain out of this until several days have passed, let the facts roll in.
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the Trump-hating, registered Democrat Bernie Bro, whose medical license was reported to have expired in 2015...
Paul’s 59-year-old neighbor, pleaded guilty to a federal charge of assaulting a member of Congress resulting in personal injury.
A judge set sentencing for June 15.
Boucher, an anesthesiologist, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Prosecutors are reportedly seeking a 21-month prison sentence for Boucher, but the charge carries up to 10 years in jail, and a $250,000 fine.
Boucher’s attorney, Matthew Baker, told Fox News Friday that his client is "relieved" to have "this phase of the case behind him."
"He is looking forward to obtaining a complete resolution," Baker said.
"This whole situation had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's politics or political agendas or political parties," Baker told Fox News. "It has been a longstanding dispute between two neighboring property owners over the issue of their property maintenance of lack thereof."
Boucher initially pleaded not guilty in November.
Paul, R-Ky., sustained six broken ribs and a “pleural effusion.” A pleural effusion is “the build-up of excess fluid between the layers of the pleura outside the lungs,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Boucher’s attorney told Fox News in November that Paul and his client had been neighbors for 17 years in Bowling Green, Ky. and were “prominent members of the local medical community and worked together when they were both practicing physicians.”
He said that the dispute grew out of “a matter that most people would regard as trivial.”
Paul was mowing his lawn on Nov. 3, 2017, when Boucher saw him stacking brush into a pile near his property, according to court records reviewed by The Courier Journal.
Boucher had “had enough,” and attacked Paul, over a “property dispute that had finally boiled over,” according to the plea agreement reached in January.
[CNN] Two dozen veterans held US flags and stood at attention as they and dozens of family and friends bid farewell to one of the nation's great war heroes.
Anthony C. Acevedo's four children and two grandchildren escorted his flag-draped coffin as he came to rest at Riverside National Cemetery before the Prisoner of War Missing in Action Memorial.
Acevedo was a World War II medic and one of 350 US soldiers held in a Nazi slave labor camp. His journal proved critical in documenting the deaths and atrocities inside the camp.
He would become the first Mexican-American ever recognized as a Holocaust survivor. He kept one brutality secret, though, until the final months of his life.
At 93, his final words were: "How life tells a story."
[PENNLIVE] A driver in New Jersey made a fatal mistake when he ignored a road closed barricade Thursday morning and drove on, only to run over live electrical wires downed by this week's nor'easter storm.
As 6ABC in Philly reports, the driver's SUV erupted into flames in on Summit Avenue and Route 208 in Franklin Lakes just before 9 a.m., as the vehicle hit those live wires.
In fact, the inferno was so bad, the driver had not been positively identified as of last reports.
Fire totally gutted the vehicle, and the driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Charles Darwin to the white courtesy phone.....Mr. Darwin..........
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Curiosity here JohnQC; did the robot underperform or is the punchline it actually did its job so well there were too many customers?
Because the last time I was in a fast food restaurant, and I'm a go inside and see who touches my food and how clean the place is kinda guy. Looked like a damned petting zoo. Except dirtier. And not as well behaved.
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Walking up Netherland Ave yesterday, lines down on sidewalk so I carefully step over and the second line whacks me in the head...didn't seem to be live.
Genius, you say?
swksvolFF: Reported as too slow. Article didn't say anything about cleanliness. I too like to see attention to cleanliness where people prepare my food.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP leader who pretended she was black only to be unmasked as a white woman in 2015, is appearing in a new Netflix documentary against her son's wishes. Ja, sure. Ånd I bane identify as Swedish...
Dolezal, 40, from Spokane, Washington, sparked outrage when her parents revealed she was posing as a black woman. And I identify as 22 years old.
Netflix released the documentary's trailer on Wednesday and was criticized for spending money to promote someone who is 'fraudulent and problematic'. Ånd I identify as blønd, med a füll head of hair, by gølly! Yust like Råchel, önly nøt knullrufs!
Dolezal's teenage son Franklin, who is biracial, is featured in the trailer where he implores his mother to stop publicizing her beliefs. Ånd I identify as SLENDER! THAT'S RIGHT! SLENDER, DAMMIT!
'I resent some of her choices and I resent some of the words she has spoken in interviews,' Franklin said during the documentary's trailer. AND... AND I IDENTIFY AS SANE! NOMRAL! THERE'S NOTHING WORNG WITH ME! really. you know that. don'tcha?...
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You can identify as a different race just like you can identify as a woman or an attack helicopter.
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Supposedly, Barry and Michele Obama are going to do something with documentaries at Netflix in the near future. Documentaries are supposed to be true? Right?
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Supposedly, Barry and Michele Obama are going to do something with documentaries at Netflix in the near future. Documentaries are supposed to be true? Right?
Racist colonial themes all filmed in Kenya or SA no doubt, making him unavailable for congressional testimony or the meddling media. I hope they decide to stay on well beyond the filming.
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I'm surprised Sao Paulo's not on there - it's got quite the reputation as a shithole city, and a client confirmed it when he got back from one of the World Cup games down there back in 2014.
[Daily Caller] President Donald Trump pardoned Navy sailor Kristian Saucier who was jailed in October 2016 for taking photos aboard a U.S. nuclear submarine, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced in a Friday press briefing.
Saucier was convicted of unauthorized retention of national defense information for holding onto the photos aboard the submarine that show classified technology. Trump repeatedly invoked Saucier’s case as evidence of the alleged wrongdoing of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
Trump frequently criticized Clinton for her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state. He noted during the campaign that Saucier did "nothing" compared to Clinton.
"They put him in jail. And you see what she does and she’s allowed to run for president. Folks do you know what it tells you? The system is rigged, and I’ve been saying that for a long time," Trump said, adding "It’s an old submarine, believe me, they have pictures of that submarine that nobody knows about, probably, right?"
Saucier maintained throughout his proceedings that he did not mean to distribute classified information and noted that other sailors had posted similar photos without suffering any consequences.
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...Bad, bad move. The lad not only blew an integrity gasket, he ran right over all the other safeguards, lied through his teeth when he got caught, and did his damnedest to destroy evidence (and not very well at that). And his justification for asking for the pardon boiled down to, "I just wanted to show my family what I did, everybody else did it, and Hilary."
I get that there are things we do in the service that we can't share with our family and friends. But we kept our words and didn't. This will open up a can of worms not worth just poking Felonia von Pantsuit in the eye.
Mike
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Mike, could this be a way to change the Overton Window?
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I kinda wonder what the watch officer was doing when the pictures were taken. If the gizmos and gadgets were classified stuff, why were any photography allowed at all...
Of course, given the open access to all of our national defense technology that the Clintons and Zero gave to anyone and everyone, these pics are probably old news to the bad guys.
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I don't know the details but if the pix were taken in port there is only a skeleton crew of watchstanders. The whole boat is almost deserted with a couple of rovers and the rest of the watchstanders working or sleeping.
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I get that there are things we do in the service that we can't share with our family and friends.
I cheated; I married a co-worker who had the same clearances. There was a friend who majored in Chinese military history. We used to discuss Chinese ICBM's. That had to stop after I read the classified intelligence estimate.
Still, everybody with a clearance gets a counterintelligence briefing once a year. Sailor Saucier had to know that what he was doing was wrong. A photograph could have caught unintended targets useful to the black hats. For the longest time, I used a Blackberry that lacked a camera because I couldn't bring a camera on site.
Still, given that the beast walked, what was done to sailor Saucier lacked symmetry. So OK.
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[NDTV] LONDON: British police requested military assistance in investigating a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent as speculation mounted Friday about how London could respond if a state actor were to blame.
Police extended the cordon around the modest suburban home of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, the quiet city in southwestern England where he and his daughter Yulia were found slumped on a bench on Sunday.
The pair remain unconscious in a critical but stable condition, while Nick Bailey, one of the first police officers on the scene, is now sitting up and talking after initially being admitted to intensive care.
With police also hurt in the attack, pressure is intensifying on Prime Minister Theresa May to find and punish the culprits.
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As you mentioned yesterday, Colonel Skripal sat in a Russian prison for years. He could have succumbed, with no great fanfare, to any number of illnesses during those years. The Russian is a paranoid, loathsome creature, but he should not be blamed for everything.
I suspect the UK Defense Establishment and Porton Down have a USAMRIID, Bruce Ivins challenge before them. The proximity of PD to the crime scene is simply too coincidental.
[Hot Air] If you’ve planned to spend spring break in the tourist resorts of the Yucatan Peninsula, you may want to reconsider.The State Department abruptly closed the US consulate in the popular tourist destination of Playa del Carmen late Wednesday evening and ordered US government employees to stay out of the area. They warn other Americans either in the region or thinking of traveling to it about a "real crime threat" from local drug cartels:
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No, no, no. They should reopen it and start rotating the top bureaucrats at State there and to other hellholes. Tell them that they need to (quote) refresh field experience (un-quote) or some such blather -- see if they will quit, eh?
Rebels claim the the Ukrainians returned the mutilated body of a soldier captured March 2nd, according to Russian language news accounts.
A video released by the Donetsk ministry of defense, (translation available) featured part of a press conference held Friday, discussing the return of the corpse of Evgeny Igorevich Toropkin, who both sides originally said had been captured.
According to the Donetsk ministry of health head of forensics, Dmitry Kalashnikov, the soldier had been shot and stabbed numerous times, and in a several places on the body skin had been removed. A death certificate given to rebel officials said that the cause of death was known, characterized in the report as death "as result of uncertain intentions."
Although rebel officials decline to state what caused the injuries, it appears the soldier was beaten and stabbed to death.
Each side tells a different story of events.
According to press reports at the time which appeared in lb.ua, drunken elements of the rebel 9th Separate Naval Infantry Regiment stumbled into the security zone of the Ukrainian 36th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade, calling the Ukrainians out to fight.
The lb.ua report said that one of the rebel marines was killed, while the other two fled, presumably returning to their own lines.
According to rebel accounts at the time, a reinforced Ukrainian naval infantry squad, numbering 15 effectives, attempted to attack rebel positions under the cover of mortar fire.
Although neither side has specified the location of the encounters, it is known that Ukrainian naval infantry units have occupied the town of Shirokino since the summer of 2015, while rebel occupy positions near Sakhanka, about 1.6 kilometers to the northeast of Shirokino.
The rebel report said that two Ukrainian marines were killed in the encounter and another two were wounded. The remainder of the squad returned to their lines.
The rebel reports said that one of their soldiers were wounded and another was captured.
[Reuters] Neutral Switzerland is ready to facilitate talks between North Korea and the United States, the Swiss foreign ministry said on Friday.
The offer came a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was prepared to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for talks to resolve a standoff over the North’s nuclear weapons. It would be the first face-to-face encounter between the two countries’ leaders.
"Switzerland is in contact with all the parties involved," the ministry said in a statement. "The good offices Switzerland can provide are well known. It is up to the parties involved to decide if, when and where the talks will be held."
Then-President Doris Leuthard offered in September to mediate in the U.S.-North Korea dispute, noting that Switzerland had a long history of neutral and discreet diplomacy.
North Korea and the United States reached a framework agreement in Geneva in 1994 to freeze construction of the North’s nuclear reactors, but that accord unraveled in 2003.
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"...And we brought chocolates! And cuckoo clocks!
Who can't discuss nuclear disarmament when you've got chocolate and cuckoo clocks? Now c'mon, ya big lugs, let's get a deal goin' here!"
*J/K, it couldn't hurt
Mike
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Ummm...why should the US bother?
What value proposition does DPRK bring?
[KCNAWATCH.CO] Miroslav Lazanski, a lawmaker from the Serbian Progressive Party and a political and military commentator of the newspaper Politika, and other international affairs experts of different countries become more vocal in stressing the justification of the DPRK's nuclear possession.
It is eloquently proved by the history of the DPRK-U.S. confrontation.
Historically the U.S. has posed nuclear threat and blackmail to the DPRK for several decades after adopting it as a policy to mount nuclear attack on the DPRK.
In the present century its nuclear threat and blackmail against the DPRK have got more frantic.
There was no other option for the DPRK in the phase of acute confrontation in which it had to protect its system and destiny of the nation in one-on-one showdown with the world's biggest nuclear possessor U.S. We openly and squarely possessed nuclear weapons to defend the supreme interests of the country from the U.S. nuclear threats.
We have scuttled all the nuclear attack operation scenarios of the U.S. which tried to drive the Korean nation into nuclear disaster with hysteric war games. We have drastically weakened its unchallenged position in the world.
Peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, Northeast Asia and the rest of the world have been reliably guaranteed by the DPRK's bolstering of nuclear deterrent.
The DPRK has defended the world peace and security by single-handedly frustrating the U.S. reckless nuclear moves to stifle it by force and dominate the world. Its feats deserve the praise of the world.
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[ASPI - Australian Strategic Policy Institute] By Danielle Cave
Each month we learn more and more about the extent of Russia’s interference in the 2016 US elections. Fraudulent social media accounts accused of propping up non-existent political commentators, armies of Twitter bots designed to cluster around and drive defined political and social issues, carefully crafted ‘dark posts’ that only some could see, and political rallies coordinated by social media event pages, all are now standard media fodder.
This sophisticated covert campaign used disinformation to sow confusion and magnify noise and disagreement. It prodded and promoted a lack of confidence in American leaders and institutions. It did so by taking advantage of the openness of American society—and by leveraging cyberspace in new and creative ways that outpaced and outfoxed government thinking. Given the lack of response from the US government during (and immediately following) the elections, and the seeming lack of awareness in media that events were being manipulated, it’s fair to say few understood the magnitude of what was tearing down the pipeline.
At an estimated cost of US$1.25 million a month—chump change for most developed countries’ intelligence services—the operation was a steal for the Russian government. (If you haven’t already done so, do read Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 37-page indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities, including the Internet Research Agency).
While international media remains focused on Russian influence operations in the US and Europe—Sweden is the latest to prepare for possible election meddling—it’s important to note that covert cyber-enabled influence operations take place around the world, including in the Indo-Pacific.
In the Philippines, for example, media and academia have tracked how President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘keyboard trolls’ spread and amplify messages in support of his policies through a combination of social media bots and fake accounts. Parts of this domestically focused operation appear to be coming straight from the president’s office. A 2017 Oxford paper claimed that Duterte’s office had a budget of US$200,000 and employed 400–500 people to promote the president and defend him from online criticisms.
One operation that Australia’s national security community should watch closely is being investigated in Taiwan. Taipei’s District Prosecutors’ Office alleges that the Chinese government has been running a multi-year operation ‘aimed at infiltrating the military through obtaining confidential information from digital networks and databases, deepening existing contacts, holding military-related events and filing academic research reports’.
Apparently conducted through the Chinese government’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), the operation involved financing pro-unification propaganda website FIRE News and then using the website’s Facebook page to recruit contacts, ideally senior military contacts. It’s been reported that TAO paid FIRE News’ administrators A$130 for every new Facebook like (as long as that user liked and read at least 70% of the page’s content). It offered A$220 for each Facebook user who interacted with the creators of the page at least once every two weeks for a minimum of two months. If offline meetings were secured with contacts (this had to be proved with photographs), A$435 was up for grabs.
A reward of A$2,180 was given if during these two-person exchanges the Facebook user opened up about their politics and personal feelings. If someone made it to this stage of the operation, it’s alleged that they were told to immediately get in touch with TAO for further instructions.
We could view this operation as stock-standard human intelligence collection—recruiting agents to recruit agents. But it’s actually a two-for-one hybrid operation. We have an Avon/Amway-style espionage operation fused with a cyber-enabled influence operation (taking place through both the website and attached Facebook page). Compared with Russia’s activities in this space, this operation was quieter (until it was discovered of course) and the approach appeared to be tilted towards long-term gain rather than short-term outcomes.
While this is one of the more interesting influence operations we are aware of in Asia, it’s only one case study we can learn from. Start scratching the surface of content farms—particularly in how they’re deployed against Taiwan—and we can glean insights into the types of information-warfare tactics being used in our region.
For Australia, it’s essential that we keep an eye on such influence operations occurring closer to home, particularly as we move towards our next national election. That’s a topic I’ll tackle in my next post.
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) ‐ A protest was held Friday morning outside City Hall offices in National City a day after a video began circulating on social media showing a mother being snatched off a National City street and hauled away by federal authorities in front of her frantic, crying daughters.
The government says she is in the country illegally and accuses her of running a smuggling operation in East County.
The video, which already has 9 million views, shows Morales-Luna being taken into custody by plainclothes U.S. Border Patrol agents at 24th and D streets in National City.
Judith Castro, the teacher of one of Morales-Luna's three young daughters posted the video, which she says was taken by the daughter herself as she witnessed her mother being arrested.
"It was very emotional to watch," said Castro.
National City Councilmember Alejandra Sotelo-Solis says she did not witness the arrest, but in speaking with those close to the family has learned that Morales-Luna and her daughters had been on their way to pay rent when a man dressed in civilian clothes approached, asked her name and then took her into custody.
"When I heard the screams of the daughters, I felt sadness, I felt frustration and then I was infuriated," said Sotelo-Solis.
The following is a statement from the United States Border Patrol, San Diego:
Perla Morales-Luna was identified as a human smuggling facilitator who recruited drivers to transport illegal aliens from a remote border area in Eastern San Diego County to a stash house in National City as part of a larger transnational criminal organization. Other individuals associated with this criminal organization were arrested shortly after a smuggling event transpired in January of 2018 near Boulevard, California. Ms. Morales-Luna eluded arrest at that time, and despite direct phone conversations between her and U.S. Border Patrol agents, she refused to self-surrender to authorities. Due to her unwillingness to self-surrender and the fact that she was an illegal alien present in the United States she was deemed a flight risk and a targeted enforcement operation was approved for her arrest.
Much more at link including much more video. These people are going bananas.
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This Illegal Alien, who birthed out three anchor babies here, was a known Illegal Smuggling Conspirator. They tried to get her to turn herself in (contacting personally by phobe), but she refused. F her, F her kids, and F the media. Jail and deport her ass
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Because Hamas spends their funds on war tunnels and military training for children instead of sewage treatment.
[Ynet] With Gazoo's sewage treatment facility still nonoperational and Israel having to bear the load of its wastewater, Israeli wastewater reservoirs in strip's perimeter are paying a toll, as their water becomes so contaminated it can no longer be used for irrigation‐hurting the region's farmers.
The Ministry of Health instructed farmers in Israeli communities on the Gazoo perimeter on Tuesday not to use water from Sderot and Sha'ar HaNegev wastewater reservoirs to irrigate their fields, after it found the water was contaminated by sewage from the Gazoo Strip.
Last July, the Sderot Municipality and Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council, which is situated on the Gazoo perimeter, were instructed by the Water Authority to build a new sewage pipe in the vicinity of the Erez Crossing to receive wastewater from Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanun in the Gazoo Strip, after the sewage treatment facility there was shut down due to the electricity crisis.
The absorbed sewage was transferred to sewage storage facilities in Kibbutz Erez and then to Sha'ar HaNegev and Sderot's sewage treatment facilities.
Prior to that, sewage from the strip flowed through Nahal Hanun, was stored in the sands of Moshav Netiv HaAsara and contaminated the area and groundwater. Once every few days, Israeli trucks came and pumped the sewage.
The Water Authority said they were "treating the matter as an emergency event, to stop the massive flow of sewage from the Gazoo Strip into the territory of the State of Israel (via Nahal Hanun).
"The Water Authority is working to reduce expected damage from Paleostinian wastewater overflows and to protect the wells of the area. The flow of sewage from the Gazoo Strip toward the State of Israel began long before and without any connection to the electricity problems in Gazoo, and we expect the cooperation of all regional bodies in the region."
Recently, the Ministry of Health conducted a series of tests at the site, after which it became clear that the quality of water in the reservoir became too poor to use due to sewage from the Strip.
No good deed goes unpunished
The wastewater treatment plant receives approximately 2,000 cubic meters of sewage from the Gazoo Strip every day.
In recent years, the Ministry of Health and the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council have demanded a plan to upgrade the facility, but this has not been implemented for various reasons, mainly budgetary.
Farmers on the Gazoo perimeter are concerned about the new situation, as in a few weeks they are set to begin pumping water for irrigation of fields and orchards‐something that has not been done all winter.
Alon Shuster, head of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council, said that "the good deed we are doing by collecting Gazoo's sewage so that it will not contaminate Israel's groundwater brought a heavy punishment on us.
"We are making an effort to cleanse the wastewater and hope that the Ministry of Health will give us time to resolve the issue."
In July, the amount of sewage discharged into Nahal Hanun increased significantly. It was flooded and almost overflowing with contaminated water, which made pumping sewage out of it no longer effective.
The IDF was then forced to block the stream from the Gazoo side with mounds of dirt in an attempt to stop the flow of sewage, but the Paleostinians broke through the mounds and returned to dumping sewage into the stream.
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Gazans are sewage. So much sewage that the idiot and blasphemous piece of shit Arab world that sponsored their bullshit refuse them now.
Now MY Israel is threatened by that piece of shit tribe squatting on MY LAND?
Let me remind you of something: In ZEPH2, then as of now, I gave no one authority to take Gush Katif. I only ordered Israel out of it, again. None of you scumbag phonies were invited to that land. It was to be deserted as a message but you took it anyways.
And now I AM more angry than ever with it's contents. Find the donars and make them take these assholes as "refugees" He who paid for their warfare activity they most takes the most of the rabid dogs they have bred.
I AM serious.
Clear it out. Sinai or bust. You will not live around Israel in the end.
… and why you should really have a look at it.
[HackerNoon] Since 2010, Facebook allows you to download an archive file of all your interactions with the network. It’s a 5-click easy process that your grandmother can do (more details below).
Inside the .zip, lies an ‘index.html’ page that acts as a portal to your personal data. Visually, it looks like an ad-free stripped down version of Facebook that’s actually quite relaxing.
As I’m trying to reduce my exposure to social networks, I decided to take a look at this info. By extrapolating the data of a single individual (me), I might be able to better apprehend the capabilities of the beast. In the end, it all comes down to what is tracked and what can be deduced from that.
We all gave up on privacy…
… we just don’t fully realise it.
Everything you expect is there: your profile, statuses, messages, friends, pokes (Tinder’s ancestor), photos, videos, comments, events. All of it in a 500mb zip file.
There’s a lot of material and you could sift it for hours. Most of the content is unsurprising but there are a few notable facts that are worth exploring.
Abundant log-in & session data points
Every time you open Facebook, the time, location, IP address, browser & device have been recorded. If you’re part of the 1.4B people that use Facebook on a daily basis, they have enough data points to determine your everyday life patterns with great accuracy: home and work address, daily commute, wake up & bed time, travel duration & destination, etc.
Flawless facial recognition
Detailed contact list
When you install Facebook’s app on your phone, you give it the right to see your contact list. Once that’s done, Facebook keeps ALL your contacts information forever.
Get to know your advertiser
… because he surely knows you.
Eventually, I realised that the harm potential really depends on 2 factors: the intentions & means of action of the organisation that harvests your data.
Harm potential = money * financial KPI’s — regulatory pressure.
How to get your data?
To download your Facebook backup, just follow the 3 steps described here. Facebook will send you an email once your backup’s ready (it usually takes less than 10 minutes).
For a more holistic approach, check out PersonalData.io. It’s a web service that‘s helping individuals get a hold on their personal data. They’re doing an awesome job referencing data controllers & providing request templates filled with the correct wording & legal jargon. They then publish the requests & answers online so that everyone can appreciate corporate lawyers’ talent for complexifying exchanges & dodging questions.
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Most facts presented in this article are sourced from these reports & websites.
If you wish to learn more or make your own opinion, I think they’re a good starting point.
Facebook machine learning - Stacey Higginbotham from Fortune magazine wrote really interesting stuff on that topic.
Algorithm & user profiling - Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr. & Surya Mattu published an awesome 4 episode series on machine bias in ProPublica
Facial recognition legal issues - The Daily Beast’s thorough report taught me a lot.
Archiving your social media data - Liana Bandziulis published a great article on that topic in WIRED magazine.
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restricting constitutional rights for 18-20 yr olds due to the actions of an evil criminal and utter failures of the BSO/School/FBI? This law will get tossed
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If the various mass shootings are looked at by the age of the shooter, there doesn't seem to be a correlation or a causal relationship.
#3
So they think a 5yo is mature enough to determine its gender... A 12yo is mature enough to have sex and get abortions... a 18yo is mature enough to vote ... but they aren't mature enough to drink or to have a gun.
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