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Russian National Arrested for Conspiracy to Introduce Malware into a Nevada Company's Computer Network
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-arrested-conspiracy-introduce-malware-nevada-companys-computer-network
China's Thousand Talents Spy Program Reaches NASA, Texas A&M
The Department of Justice has arrested a Texas A&M engineering professor and accused him of concealing his ties to China. Dr. Zhengdong Cheng is, according to the DOJ, another of many recruits of China’s Thousand Talents Program.
Cheng allegedly led a team conducting research for NASA. According to the criminal complaint, for several years he willfully took steps to obscure his affiliations and collaboration with a Chinese University and at least one Chinese-owned company. The terms of Cheng’s grant prohibited participation, collaboration or coordination with China, any Chinese-owned company or any Chinese University, according to the charges.
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The charges allege Cheng and TAMU received funds based on Cheng knowingly providing false information to TAMU and consequently to NASA. In addition to the funds, Cheng personally benefited from his affiliation with TAMU and NASA with increased access to unique NASA resources, such as the International Space Station, according to the complaint. This access allegedly allowed Cheng to further his standing in China at Guangdong University of Technology and other universities. The charges further allege he held senior research positions there unknown to TAMU and NASA and was able to serve in the People’s Republic of China Talents program. China’s Talents Plans are allegedly designed to attract, recruit and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security.
University Chancellor John Sharp issued a statement, saying TAMU worked with the FBI on its investigation of Cheng.
“We worked closely with the FBI on this case, and we gladly will work with them again as needed,” said Chancellor John Sharp of the Texas A&M System. “No one in higher education takes security as seriously as we do at The Texas A&M University System. In fact, we have received several awards from the Department of Defense’s Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, including one just last month.”
Cheng’s is the latest of several arrests around the nation in 2020 related to the Thousand Talents Program. That plan is a Chinese Communist Party initiative by which China’s military and industry buy access to top-level researchers and their work around the world. Earlier this year, Harvard nanoscientist Dr. Charles Lieber was arrested and indicted on similar charges. In the spring, Professor Simon Saw-Teong Ang of the University of Arkansas was arrested for allegedly concealing ties to China.
The Thousand Talents Program began in 2008 with the goal of recruiting about 2,000 top scientists in key fields to work clandestinely for China. It has reportedly recruited about 7,000 scientists in the United States and around the world, whose cutting-edge work gets funneled into the Chinese military.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/08/25/chinas-thousand-talents-spy-program-reaches-nasa-texas-am-n843231
X22Report - Jim Willie: The US Was Infiltrated From Within, This Is A Battle Between Good & Evil!!
Calls out Rothschild / Davos crowd / Corps./ UN orgs
Matthew 7:7
Progressives Ask Networks to Tape-Delay RNC: ‘Risk of Unfiltered Disinformation Too Great’
Progressive groups are asking television networks to delay airing parts of the Republican National Convention (RNC) until they can fact-check speakers’ claims.
“As our nation battles the dual crises of systemic racism and the coronavirus pandemic, relying on the media for factual, life-saving information is crucial to the health of the American people and our democracy,” the letter dated Monday read.
The text was posted on the group UltraViolet’s website and signed by others such as NARAL Pro-Choice America, United We Dream Action, and Color of Change PAC.
It was addressed to CNN Worldwide President Jeffrey A. Zucker, MSNBC President Phil T. Griffin, ABC News President James Goldston, NBCUniversal Worldwide News Group President Noah Oppenheim, and CBS Corporation President Joseph Ianniello.
“We need truthful information to stop the proliferation of disinformation that impedes the American public’s health and safety, and our democracy,” the letter continued:
We recognize that you have a responsibility for the fundamental importance of giving equal time to both major political parties, but we request that you put the Republican National Convention’s programming on a 1-minute time delay, so that your network can actively fact check and debunk dangerous disinformation in real time and stop it from spreading.
CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS have previously cut away or run fact-checks in real-time during coronavirus briefings, and this should be no different. The potential risk of unfiltered disinformation emanating in real time, via your network, to millions of homes around the country, is too great.
“We know who the speakers at the convention will be, and an overwhelming majority of them contribute to the spread of dangerous disinformation every single day,” the letter claimed.
Amazon Prime Video did not offer viewers a live stream of the RNC Monday although it live streamed every night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) last week, Breitbart News reported.
The article stated:
The RNC blackout meant that Amazon Prime subscribers couldn’t watch the first night of the convention through the Prime Video mobile app or through Fire TV devices. Breitbart News made multiple attempts to search for a primetime RNC livestream on Amazon but only found archived RNC footage from earlier in the day.
Despite the pushback, C-SPAN’s live stream of the RNC’s first night got nearly six times more views than the DNC’s first night, according to Breitbart News.
The live stream “garnered nearly 440,000 views, a major increase over the start of the Democratic National Convention that drew 76,000 views,” the report concluded.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/08/25/progressives-ask-networks-to-tape-delay-rnc-risk-of-unfiltered-disinformation-too-great/
More Than 10,000 Daesh Fighters Active in Syria, Iraq - UN Counterterror Chief
Despite Daesh losing its territory in the Middle East around two years ago, over 10,000 of the group’s fighters remain active “in small cells” between the countries of Syria and Iraq, according to new statements from Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office Vladimir Voronkov.
Speaking before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday, Voronkov detailed that not only are there more than 10,000 Daesh fighters between Syria and Iraq, but attacks committed by Daesh personnel have also increased within the past year.
Voronkov expressed that “there is a continued trend of attacks by individuals inspired online and acting alone or in small groups, which could be fueled by [Daesh’s] opportunistic propaganda efforts during the COVID-19 crisis,” as reported by the Associated Press.
Voronkov’s remarks to the UNSC follow a recent report issued from the US Department of Defense Inspector General's Office, which detailed that Daesh militants “conducted a surge of attacks during Ramadan and exploited restrictions placed on security forces due to COVID-19 to conduct more attacks.”
Despite a ramping up of attacks in the region, the US-led Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve asserted that Daesh “is not resurging.”
“In non-conflict zones, the threat appears to have decreased in the short term,” Voronkov told the UNSC. “Measures to minimize the spread of COVID-19, such as lockdowns and restrictions on movement, seem to have reduced the risk of terrorist attacks in many countries.”
According to the under-secretary-general, Daesh and other terrorist organizations are looking “to exploit the far-reaching disruption and negative socioeconomic and political impacts of the pandemic.”
Ambassador William Roebuck, the US deputy special envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, recently warned Washington officials that northern Syria’s al-Hol refugee camp, an area that houses those displaced by wars in Iraq and Syria, as well as captured Daesh militants, could be a breeding ground for terrorism, adding that Daesh “remains a significant threat.”
“And that’s why the military presence is still there and that's why the coalition remains engaged, to prevent [Daesh] from resurging,” he said, as reported by 13 News Now.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008251080277839-more-than-10000-daesh-fighters-active-in-syria-iraq—un-counterterror-chief-/