China leaks dossier of 14 disputes with Australia as tensions increase

A bombshell dossier containing a long list of reasons China is “angry” at Australia has been deliberately leaked in a move that will alarm Scott Morrison.

Remember back in August when China’s Deputy Head of Mission Wang Xining made that extraordinary speech at Canberra’s National Press Club outlining how Australia had wronged the Communist state?

It was a pointed attack at Australia over its decision to back an independent inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic – a decision the diplomat compared with the stabbing of Roman emperor Julius Caesar.

The rift over where coronavirus originated has dominated the relationship between the two previously strong allies. But it is far from the only reason China is “angry” at Australia.

A deliberately leaked document delivered by the Chinese embassy in Canberra to The Age newspaper reveals 14 disputes that are “poisoning bilateral relations”.

“China is angry,” an official said after the leak on Tuesday. “If you make China the enemy, China will be the enemy.”

RELATED: America’s brazen move to offend China

The list of grievances cited by Chinese officials reportedly includes calls for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19, taking sides over the South China Sea territorial dispute, “thinly veiled” accusations that China is behind cyber attacks and banning Huawei from the rollout of 5G because of security concerns.

A new military pact between Australia and Japan has also ruffled feathers in Beijing where Chinese state media described it as “dangerous”.

“We suggest Japan and Australia exercise restraint on the way to form a quasi military alliance against China,” a Global Times editorial read on Tuesday night.

“They will surely pay a corresponding price if China’s national interests are infringed upon and its security is threatened.”

The Global Times condemned both nations for “recklessly” taking the first step to conduct deep defence co-operation that targets a third party, and accused them of shifting the responsibilities of safeguarding regional unity to China.

https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/china-leaks-dossier-of-14-disputes-with-australia-as-tensions-increase/news-story/fede40932a193a049b116382be3ed85b

Twitter Hires One Of The World's Most Respected Hackers As Its Head Of Security

Twitter seems to want to fight fire with fire. That is why the company is hiring one of the world's best known hackers to help protect it against - well, hackers.

It wasn't soon after Twitter announced its latest "innovation" of copying "Stories" from Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, that the company also announced it was appointing "one of the world's best regarded hackers" as their head of security.

Going by the alias "Mudge", Peiter Zatko was hired by the social media company and was given a "broad mandate" to enact any changes to the company's structure and practices, Reuters reported. He'll be in charge of everything from security to misinformation and will report directly to Jack Dorsey.

Zatko told Reuters he would look at “information security, site integrity, physical security, platform integrity which starts to touch on abuse and manipulation of the platform and engineering.”

He has also said he is committed to "improving public conversations" on Twitter. We'll believe it when we see it…

“They are going to have to find creative solutions to these problems, and if Mudge is famous for anything in security, it is being creative,” he concluded.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/twitter-hires-one-worlds-most-respected-hackers-its-head-security

Overview of Nuclear Material Protection, Control and Accounting in Russia, November 16, 1994

Background

Excerpt from the document:

WHILE MANY DIFFERENT SYSTEMS ARE IN PLACE IN RUSSIA TO INSURE THE SECURITY OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS AGAINST THEFT OR DIVERSION , FEW IF ANY OF THE SE SYSTEMS WOULD MEET U.S. – STYLE STANDARDS FOR NUCLEAR SECURITY . SOVIET NUCLEAR SECURITY SYSTEMS WERE BASED ON CONCEPTS OF ISLOATION OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS AND SPECIALISTS AND ON PROTECTION AGAINST EXTERNAL THREATS ( FREQUENTLY SEEN AS U.S. SPYING OR SABOTAGE ).

The document was requested by The Black Vault through a “Mandatory Declassification Review” or MDR in February of 2018. The document was released in May of 2019 (and added to The Black Vault in November of 2020).

Document Archive

Overview of Nuclear Material Protection, Control and Accounting in Russia, November 16, 1994 [45 Pages, 13.2MB]

https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/statedept/M-2018-01170.pdf

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/overview-of-nuclear-material-protection-control-and-accounting-in-russia-november-16-1994/

Senators release new evidence tying Hunter Biden business to communist China, Russian energy

The ‘relationships created counterintelligence and extortion concerns,’ Grassley and Johnson warn.

Two Republican-run Senate committees on Wednesday released new evidence they say shows Hunter Biden and his business associates were working deals as late as 2017 tied to communist China and Russian energy interests, arguing the activities created potential counterintelligence concerns for Joe Biden’s family.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., made the documents public as part of a supplemental report in their ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden’s business activities. The documents included emails, text messages and business memos provided to the committee by Biden family business associate Tony Bobulinski, who is cooperating with both Senate and FBI investigations into the Biden family.

“These new records confirm the connections between the Biden family and the communist Chinese government, as well as the links between Hunter Biden’s business associates and the Russian government, and further support the Committees’ September 23, 2020 report’s finding that such relationships created counterintelligence and extortion concerns,” the senators wrote in their new report.

You can read the report here.

File

2020-11-18 HSGAC - Finance Joint Report Supplemental.pdf

Specifically, the committees’ evidence traces business deals discussed between Hunter Biden, Bobulinski and an American businessman close to the Biden family named Rob Walker. The senators released an email in which Walker described himself as “being a surrogate for H or Jim when gauging opportunities.” The committee said that in the email “H appears to refer to Hunter Biden, and Jim appears to refer to Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.”

Many of the new documents involved discussions with a business venture called CEFC China Energy, which was under the leadership of Ye Jianming. The senators stated that Ye “had established ties to the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese military, the People’s Liberation Army” and worked with Hunter Biden and his associates to pursue energy deals around the globe, including in Oman, France and Russia. The committee said a company affiliated with Ye wired money to U.S. accounts tied to Biden’s associates in 2017.

“In 2017, during the time that Ye’s companies were sending millions of dollars to Hunter Biden associated companies, Ye had business dealings with Kremlin-controlled companies and Kremlin-aligned businessmen,” the report said. “In effect, Ye appears to have been China’s unofficial bridge to Russia on energy. As noted in the Committees’ September 23, 2020 report, in September 2017, CEFC announced its intention to purchase a 14.2 percent stake in the Russian state-owned energy company, Rosneft, for approximately $9 billion.”

The committee cited direct communications in which Hunter Biden acknowledged he “was in close contact with Ye in 2017 and was aware of these developments.”

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/senators-release-new-evidence-tying-hunter-biden

More

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-11/2020-11-18%20HSGAC%20-%20Finance%20Joint%20Report%20Supplemental.pdf

ABC’s Media Watch and host Paul Barry try to rebirth the reputation of disgraced Cardinal George Pell

ABC’s Media Watch and host Paul Barry posted a story which was clearly and deliberately biased in favour of Cardinal George Pell and I have no doubt it was an attempt to rebirth Pell’s severely tarnished reputation. I emailed a complaint to Media Watch and received a response as per below and then escalated the issue to a formal complaint to the ABC.

The story was also in breach of the ABC’s charter which says the ABC is meant to be impartial and present a diversity of perspectives. Below is what it says on the ABC’s website:

4 IMPARTIALITY AND DIVERSITY OF PERSPECTIVES

Principles

The ABC has a statutory duty to ensure that the gathering and presentation of news and information is impartial according to the recognised standards of objective journalism.

Aiming to equip audiences to make up their own minds is consistent with the public service character of the ABC. A democratic society depends on diverse sources of reliable information and contending opinions. A broadcaster operating under statute with public funds is legitimately expected to contribute in ways that may differ from commercial media, which are free to be partial to private interests. (Click here to read more and see on the ABC’s website)

I previously made a complaint about Media Watch in 2012 and they threw the dog a bone and I did an interview with them. (Click here to read more) So when I make a complaint it is not baseless.

The part about George Pell was at the end of the Media Watch post on Thursday the 5th of November 2020 which they call Media Bites and I have edited to the relevant 23 seconds as per the below video.

https://youtu.be/bJcpIi7Z3hY

https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2020/11/19/abcs-media-watch-and-host-paul-barry-try-to-rebirth-the-reputation-of-disgraced-cardinal-george-pell/

>>11698848

>>11698849

tell me I'm pretty….

‘There’s an Enemies List’: Bolton Fears Trump May Fire More Officials

Former US national security adviser John Bolton was given the boot by US President Donald Trump in early September 2019 after the pair were reported to have repeatedly clashed on how best to handle foreign policy changes, mostly in regards to Iran and North Korea.

Bolton, who served as Trump’s third national security adviser, remarked in a Wednesday interview with the Washington Post’s Robert Costa that in light of recent administration dismissals, more pink slips were likely to be issued in the coming months.

The former Trump administration official also stated that he “thought it was another bad mistake” from his ex-employer to have fired Christopher Krebs, who headed the US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Krebs was given the pink slip on Tuesday, with Trump explaining via Twitter that the top US cybersecurity official had given a “highly inaccurate” statement regarding the security of the US presidential election, and alleging that “there were massive improprieties and fraud.” Earlier on in the day, Krebs had disputed the fraud claims and said there was no evidence of election interference.

Prior to the November election, Trump and his allies repeatedly refuted the validity of mail-in ballots, as the president often took to Twitter to discredit the voting option and urge his supporters to submit their ballots in person amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Following the projected results of the 2020 election, Trump only doubled down on his stance by claiming that the election was rigged and that some ballots had even been discarded after being marked in his support.

In another instance, Trump pushed claims that in Detroit, Michigan, ballots were being submitted under the names of deceased Americans. Similar allegations were also peddled about Georgia, where the Trump campaign claimed that a ballot was submitted by a woman named Deborah Jean Christiansen, who they alleged died in May 2019; however, that was not true.

In an effort to bolster the claims even further, the Trump campaign launched a voter fraud hotline where Americans could submit reports on what they perceived to be fraudulent actions. Within moments of the hotline’s activation, it was inundated with prank calls, a move that ultimately saw it transition to an online forum, according to the Business Insider.

“There is absolutely no justification for [firing Krebs],” Bolton stressed, also saying that “there wasn’t any justification to fire [former US Defense Secretary] Mark Esper” either.

“There is no reason to decapitate your national security team with less than 10 weeks to go until the transition. That will inevitably cause disruptions in the agencies themselves, let alone their ability to hand off smoothly,” he added.

Reiterating his stance, Bolton further remarked that Trump’s allegations of voter fraud suggest that the president is living in a “fantasy world.”

“That there's a conspiracy so vast and so successful that it’s proceeding without leaving any evidence behind, and under that kind of theory, you can posit evildoing forever,” he said.

An analysis by the research group Brookings Institution recently found that the turnover rate among the Trump administration’s most-senior-ranking officials is roughly 91%. As of November 9, the group counted a total of 65 administration shuffles.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202011191081207286-theres-an-enemies-list-bolton-fears-trump-may-fire-more-officials—video/

Hungary: EU is Trying to Punish Countries That Control Their Own Borders

Hungary’s leadership is standing by its decision to block the whole seven-year budget for the European Union over the inclusion of new powers which would, they claim, allow the political persecution of member states that don’t follow the Brussels globalist playbook on matters like mass migration.

The Hungarian and Polish governments used their veto powers to block the seven-year Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) — in other words, the EU’s budget — on Monday, having failed to prevent new clauses and rules being inserted at earlier stages of the negotiation process. While the comparatively small central European nations lacked the political clout to prevent the new rules, because they are tacked on to the overall budget which must be adopted by all member states unilaterally, the bloc essentially forced Hungary and Poland into a showdown where their choices were to accept the new controls or stop Europe’s spending altogether.

'Enslavement': Hungary and Poland Veto Globalist EU Budget https://t.co/guMjYeRGn6

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 17, 2020

Hungary’s Viktor Orban was bullish on Wednesday when he said Europe was attempting to use a “political whip” to punish member states that refuse dto fall in line. The Associated Press reported further remarks where Prime Minister Orban explicitly invoked the mass migration issue — a longstanding area of disagreement between the EU, which has attempted to institute a mandatory migrant redistribution programme, and its conservatively minded members — as being at the heart of the dispute, and Europe’s desire to turn the screws on some members.

Orban said: “In Brussels today, they only view countries which let migrants in as those governed by the rule of law… Once this proposal gets adopted, there will be no more obstacles to tying member states’ share of common funds to supporting migration and us(ing) financial means to blackmail countries which oppose migration.”

Hungary’s justice minister — on whose brief much of these debates fall — accused Brussels of “double standards” in its discussions of the kinds of “rule of law” claims made as a justification of these rule changes. Pointing out that many European countries have legal peculiarities or far-from-perfect standards for judicial independence, Justice Minister Judit Varga said on Wednesday that the phrase rule of law was only invoked in reference to Hungary.

Hungary Vows to Fight EU Mass Migration Agenda After Huge Election Win https://t.co/o0W6RBZpo2

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 28, 2019

Earlier in the week, Varga had said that Europe’s wealthy nations, which don’t receive EU funding anyway, would be able to politically blackmail the poorer members, an infringement of sovereignty. Ultimately, she said, Hungary was under attack because the “liberal mainstream” couldn’t accept the fact an extremely popular conservative government controlled a nation in the heart of Europe.

While Hungary and Poland pioneered the blockade of the budget to head of the “blackmail” rules on Monday, they have since received support from Slovenia — another conservatively-minded central European state which may have something to fear from Europe tying the often considerable development fund payments to political control.

Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Jansa criticised the language of the new rules, which are generally couched in relatively emotive terms painting opponents as being anti-democratic, or anti-rule of law. Euractiv reports his Wednesday remarks, when he said: “Some political groups… are openly threatening to use the instrument wrongly called ‘rule of law’ in order to discipline individual EU Member States through a majority vote… We need EU institutions that will not be involved in Member States’ internal political conflicts.”

While Slovenia has not gone as far as joining the veto itself, it nevertheless has supported the complaints so far.

As Breitbart London reported Monday, the attempt to block the budget so far has elicited anger from some Eurofederalists. Anti-Brexit campaigner and all-round EU cheerleader Guy Verhofstadt, for instance, claimed a “corrupt power grab” by Orban.

EXCLUSIVE – Hungary Rejects Mass Migration, Prefers Social Cohesion, Pro-Family Policies https://t.co/gwVfPuhhPr

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 11, 2019

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/18/hungary-eu-is-trying-to-punish-countries-that-control-their-own-borders/

Google Overhauls Its Online Pay Service To Compete With Venmo, Others

Google on Wednesday announced it would overhaul its Google Pay service, as the online search conglomerate extends its focus to online banking, shopping and loyalty programs.

Google is partnering with different banks and financial institutions to create a mobile bank account, called "Plex," managed through the Google Pay app. Starting next year, institutions including Citi, BBVA, and the Stanford Federal Credit Union will offer the Plex accounts, which come with no monthly fees or overdraft charges, CNBC reported.

The app will use artificial intelligence to make it easier to search through purchases. In addition, Google will also send spending reports and other data to help users with budgeting. While Google provides the technology, the money will be handled by the banks.

“Along with our bank partners, we were looking to make banking more relevant for the mobile-first generation,” Caesar Sengupta, general manager of payments at Google, told CNBC. “It will help our partners make banking more approachable to that generation, and not only make it more relevant, but make it more fun.”

Google also wants the app to compete with other payment services like Venmo. Users will be able to pay friends, split a check, or order from stores.

The app will also allow users to pay for parking meters in 400 cities or buy gas from Shell, ExxonMobil, and other gas stations at certain locations. The app will also be a hub for loyalty programs and deals, with offers from businesses including Burger King and Sweetgreen, The Verge reported.

Google isn’t the only tech conglomerate looking to compete with Venmo.

https://www.ibtimes.com/google-overhauls-its-online-pay-service-compete-venmo-others-3084988

Israeli Company Wants To Play Music Inside Your Head With Directed Sound Technology Without Headphones

A new technology called “sound beaming” developed by Noveto Systems allows listeners to hear music or sound without wearing headphones.

All that is needed is a simple device which tracks the ear and sends it audio using ultrasonic waves, creating personal listening experiences inside of a sound bubble, Times Of Israel reported.

The technology allows listeners to listen to music, play a game, or watch a movie without disturbing anyone else. That being said, unless you are within the distance of the device you won’t be able to hear sounds.

“You don’t believe it because it sounds like a speaker, but no one else can hear it… it’s supporting you and you’re in the middle of everything. It’s happening around you,” Product Manager Ayana Wallwater said.

In other words, the lack of headphones means it’s possible to hear other sounds in the room clearly.

The technology uses a 3-D model which locates and tracks the ear position sending audio via ultrasonic waves to create sound pockets around the user’s ears. Sound can be heard in stereo or a spatial 3-D mode that creates 360-degree sound around the listener, the company said in a statement to the Associated Press which reviewed the device.

Although the technology is being heralded as “new,” it’s anything but new; Noveto is simply the first to launch the technology in a consumer sense and their SoundBeamer 1.0 desktop device will be the first branded product. However, the technology before being called “sound beaming” is known as “microwave hearing,” which is documented with a former unclassified document from the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command received via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request back in 2006 entitled “Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons.”

The document is dated 1998, more than 20 years ago. One of the main topics regards the effects of “radio frequency directed energy.” The document discusses the “incapacitating effect” of “microwave hearing:”

There is no sound propagated through the air like normal sound. This technology in its crudest form could be used to distract individuals; if refined, it could also be used to communicate with hostages or hostage takers directly by Morse code or other message systems, possibly even by voice communication.

According to that document, the technology is able to be tuned into a single person like a radio station.

The phenomenon is tunable in that the characteristic sounds and intensities of those sounds depend on the characteristics of the RF energy as delivered. Because the frequency of the sound heard is dependent on the pulse characteristics of the RF energy, it seems possible that this technology could be developed to the point where words could be transmitted to be heard like the spoken word, except that it could only be heard within a person’s head. In one experiment, communication of the words from one to ten using ‘speech modulated’ microwave energy was successfully demonstrated. Microphones next to the person experiencing the voice could not pick up the sound. Additional development of this would open up a wide range of possibilities.

https://youtu.be/4zHxwUJR8dQ

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/11/israeli-company-wants-to-play-music-inside-your-head-with-directed-sound-technology-without-headphones.html

HAPPENING NOW: Trump Supporters Gather Outside NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s House Chanting ‘We Will Rock You!’

A large crowd of Trump supporters have gathered outside New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s house.

The group, upset about the lockdown, sang Queen’s “We Will Rock You.”

Cuomo has signed an executive order limiting the number of people at Thanksgiving gatherings — which many county sheriffs have said they will not enforce.

“New York follows the science. We know indoor gatherings and parties are a major source of COVID spread. To slow the spread, NYS will limit indoor gatherings at private residences to 10 people. This limit takes effect Friday at 10pm,” Cuomo tweeted on November 11.

Fulton County Sherriff Richard Giardino told CNN that he believes the order violates the constitution.

“I don’t think the Constitution allows for the infringement on the number of people in your own home,” he said. “He has authority to do a lot but not to tell law enforcement to get into someone’s house and count who is there.

“My position as a sheriff is that I took the same oath the governor did… and I don’t take any issue with the governors intent… to do what is best under the circumstances, but as a constitutional officer I have an obligation to the constituents in my county to follow that law,” he said.

Other sheriffs have expressed similar sentiments.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/happening-now-trump-supporters-gather-outside-ny-governor-andrew-cuomos-house-chanting-will-rock-video/