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>Dough
>So V transferred over to Anon, so it seems - But here's what I'm struggling to understand. V attempted to blow up Houses of Parliament, he's a terrorist.
>Expose these gatekeepers.
>Fauci Brags Of Private Calls With Chinese Communist Party Researchers. / Fauci On Private Phone Calls With Chinese Researchers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7VtFzcohmo
>https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1396949664960765952
https://www.jpost.com/international/what-bidens-new-executive-cyber-order-means-for-us-israel-analysis-669012
What Biden’s new executive cyber order means for US, Israel - analysis
What does the blockbuster May 13 executive cyber order issued by US President Joe Biden mean for the US and Israel?
How did it alter the basic fundamentals of the cyber playing field – and will it actually prevent future mega hacks of Washington and Jerusalem following a series of cyber disasters?
There are two ways to analyze the issue.
One is about comparing US and Israeli capabilities at incident response when a key aspect of one of the countries’ private sector companies or government agencies is hacked.
At this level, the US is still playing catch-up in some ways to Israel.
Since Israeli cabinet decision 2443 in 2015 established much of Israel’s current cyber protection architecture, the Israel National Cyber Directorate became a powerhouse which oversees significant portions of the private sector’s cyber security.
In a visit to the INCD’s Beersheba operations command center, The Jerusalem Post witnessed firsthand the massive amount of real-time data the cyber agency observes and collects about cyber threats across the governmental and key private sectors.
With Israel’s small land area, the directorate can often have an emergency response team at a private sector office in less than an hour or a few hours. This way, it can help the company defend itself or at least contain the malware so that it cannot spread across the country.
In some ways, the US executive order is about just starting this process – or finally starting to take it seriously.
To that extent, it will take America some time to catch up to Israel. This is especially true given that it is much more spread out geographically and has a much larger cyber surface to defend.
BUT THERE is an entirely different side to this story, where the US is making history and starting a process of cyber defense that neither Israel, nor even the EU, could have managed on their own.
These new defensive measures will start in the US, but could benefit the entire world.
According to INCD legal adviser Amit Ashkenazi, there are some things that, “only the US can do, to take action in the wider world, in technology and in the global market.”
Calling the magnitude and scope of the executive order unprecedented in US cyber history, he said it was “very practical. They are not waiting for politics,” which can fall into partisan disputes and pet projects.
The new executive order’s provisions addressing “software vulnerability and liability and labeling,” even if they are focused on the US technology industry, “are also relevant to Israel,” he said.
The cyber lawyer commented that much of the world “ignores software vulnerability and responsibility. It is a dilemma we have known about for many years,” but without ever addressing the issue head-on.
To compare, the US’s Food and Drug Administration generally does not allow new pharmaceuticals to be sold to the general population until they have been checked several times over an extended period of years, Ashkenazi said.
In contrast, when it comes “to software, as soon as it’s ready, it goes out immediately without being checked.”
The only exception to date would be for software relating to weapons such as missiles and military aircraft.
The Biden approach was smart, he said, because it tells software developers, “Now, I am watching you – this is very important.”
https://nationalpost.com/news/egyptian-court-allows-suez-canal-to-keep-holding-ever-given-says-lawyer
Egyptian court has allowed Suez Canal to keep holding Ever Given, says lawyer
An Egyptian court on Sunday rejected a complaint by the Japanese owner of a container ship that blocked traffic in the Suez Canal for six days in March against the vessel’s continued detention by canal authorities, a lawyer said.
The Ever Given, one of the world’s largest container ships, became jammed across the canal in high winds on March 23, halting traffic in both directions and disrupting global trade.
The complaint was attached to a case at the economic appeals court in Ismailia in which the Suez Canal Authority is seeking US$916 million in compensation from the Ever Given’s owner Shoei Kisen over the blockage and the operation to free the ship.
The court on Sunday referred the case back to a court of first instance, which is due to consider it on May 29, said Ahmed Abu Ali, one of the lawyers representing the owner.
Any ruling made by the lower court could trigger appeals by either side, said another lawyer on the case, Ahmed Abu Shanab, indicating that legal wrangling could drag on.
In a statement following Sunday’s ruling the SCA said it bore no responsibility for the Ever Given’s grounding, reasserting that responsibility lay with the ship’s captain alone, and rebutting arguments made a day before by Shoei Kisen’s legal team.
It also defended its $916 million claim, citing the costs of freeing the ship and a salvage bonus stipulated in maritime law, material and reputational damage, and the diversion of some shipping away from the canal.
One boat sank during the operation to free the ship, resulting in the death of a worker, the SCA said.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/05/24/egyptians-japanese-face-ever-given-cargo-ship-lies-stranded/
Egyptians and Japanese face off over Ever Given as the cargo ship lies stranded in Bitter Lake
Ever Given’s owners and insurers are fighting to get the $916m claim cut to what they see as a reasonable level and free the $170m ship
Located along the southern half of the Suez Canal, the Great Bitter Lake is not a hotspot to drop anchor in and take in the attractions….
>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/05/24/egyptians-japanese-face-ever-given-cargo-ship-lies-stranded/
It was a dry basin until 1869, when the Mediterranean and Red Sea were finally linked. Today its salinity is twice as high as the seas, owing to its salt deposit bed. Almost nothing can live in it.
The main feature of the Great Bitter Lake is its width, which means ships can pass each other, unlike in the narrow confines of the canal itself.
In this lifeless aquatic layby, the giant Ever Given container ship and its 20-plus crew have languished since March 29. The 200,000-tonne vessel was freed after it spent six days wedged in the Suez Canal’s banks but is now imprisoned by a legal battle.
The Ever Given, which is operated by Taiwanese shipping line Evergreen but owned by Japanese company Shoei Kisen and Panama-flagged, is at the centre of a tussle between the Egyptian authorities and its international owner and operators.
After it was freed, the Ever Given moored in the Great Bitter Lake, where the vessel was arrested on April 14. The Suez Canal Authority (SCA), which operates the waterway, hit it with a $916m claim. The total was split almost equally there ways between salvage costs, a “salvage bonus” and a payment for “loss of reputation”.
The seizure came on the orders of a court in Ismailia - the city where the SCA is based - as the authority sought to cover costs for the salvage, damage to the canal and losses in transit fees for ships using the canal.
According to the SCA, which charges ships $100,000-plus to use the canal - it took a $15m hit per day during the closure, with 400 ships being held up and many others choosing to avoid the chaos and take the longer trip around Africa.
Ever Given’s owners and insurers are now fighting to get the claim cut to what they see as a reasonable level and free the $170m ship. Clients with cargo on board - which is estimated to be anything from $500m to $1bn - are also preparing to weigh in, as goods which should have arrived in Europe more than a month ago gather dust on board.
At the weekend, an Ismailia court heard claims from Shoei Kisen’s lawyers that a vessel as large as Ever Given should have been accompanied by two tugs because of the windy conditions.
Recordings from the ship presented to the court hint at disagreements between SCA pilots and its control centre over whether it should enter the canal.
Ultimate responsibility for a vessel lies with its master, though, with the pilots not bearing that burden. It’s no wonder maritime message boards are full of tales of ships using the canal making sure they have plentiful supplies of booze and tobacco to ease their passage.
“It’s well known you need to have a locker well stocked with whisky and cartons of cigarettes when you enter the Suez,” says one shipping source.
The court decided that a legal technicality meant it could not advance the case and it should go back to the original chamber, creating more uncertainty, not least for the crew.
They can leave, along as they are replaced on a one for one basis, while the ship’s master has to stay with the vessel.
>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/05/24/egyptians-japanese-face-ever-given-cargo-ship-lies-stranded/
“The $916m is an extraordinarily large claim,” says one maritime lawyer with knowledge of the process. “There was a cost to the SCA for tugs, dredgers and JCBs and there is an entitlement to claim for that, but $300m is a hell of a lot and seems hard to justify.
“For the ship’s owners, it might be cheaper to say, ‘I’m not paying, take the ship’.”
Burt James M Turner, a shipping lawyer at Quadrant Chambers, says such a large claim is not unheard of. He compares it to the “over the top response from the US demanding billions and billions of dollars” after the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Alaska in 1989, or $600m-plus when the Maltese tanker Erika sank in the Bay of Biscay, both of which caused major oil spills.
“Littoral nations have a pretty poor record in responding to maritime claims,” he says. “With the Ever Given there was no pollution or massive damage, but there was a certain amount of loss of face with the world sniggering at the size of the diggers Egypt produced.”
Maritime law entitles salvors to claim for saving a vessel and its cargo, but the amount can’t exceed their value, and that the salvage has to be voluntary.
Jai Sharma, partner at law firm Clyde & Co which represents the interests of insurers of those with more than $100m of cargo on board Ever Given, said this presents a strong argument.
“The owners might say that the SCA wasn’t a volunteer, it was obliged to act,” he says. “The SCA has a tariff setting out the rates for equipment and Ever Given’s owners should be charged according to that - a sum which would be a fraction of what they are asking.”
While the owners work out their next legal move, those responsible for cargo on board are thought to be considering their own challenge to try to get the vessel released and their hands on the goods.
Osama Rabie, chairman of the SCA, has repeatedly insisted that the SCA acted correctly, saying that the “maritime safety of the canal is not to be questioned, nor is it subject for controversy”.
However, he has shown willingness to negotiate the amount the authority wants, having knocked $300m off the total, and in a weekend interview on local TV saying he would take $550m, with a $200m deposit securing the ship’s release.
The most likely outcome is that the stances of all parties involved are negotiating tactics, says Sharma.
“The only constructive outcome will be where an amount is agreed upon that's agreeable to all parties,” he says. "The SCA is grossly overvaluing what anyone will pay to solve the problem.”
In the meantime the Ever Given’s crew have little to do but watch the waves on the Great Bitter Lake.
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>Ghislaine Maxwell proposes the disclosure of victims and unindicted co-conspirators by Sep 27th, many weeks before the trial.
>https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1396962487933755397
Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito was arrested Monday in the northeast of Brazil, police said, almost two years after his escape from a prison in Uruguay where he was awaiting extradition to Italy.
Morabito, considered the head of the 'Ndrangheta group, was captured in the city of Joao Pessoa along with another Italian "outlaw" as a result of a joint investigation with Italy, Brazil's federal police said in a statement.
https://www.digitaljournal.com/world/eu-cuts-air-links-with-belarus-over-forced-plane-landing/article
EU cuts air links with Belarus over forced plane landing
>https://www.digitaljournal.com/world/eu-cuts-air-links-with-belarus-over-forced-plane-landing/article
EU cuts air links with Belarus over forced plane landing
EU leaders agreed to cut air links with Belarus on Monday, as leader Alexander Lukashenko’s regime paraded a dissident journalist arrested after his flight was forced to land in Minsk.
Strongman Lukashenko sparked international outrage by dispatching a fighter jet Sunday to intercept a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying wanted reporter Roman Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega.
European leaders meeting in Brussels hit back by agreeing to ban Belarusian airlines from the bloc’s airspace and urged EU-based carriers not to fly over its airspace.
The bloc also said it would adopt further “targeted economic sanctions” against the Belarusian authorities to add to the 88 regime figures and seven companies already on a blacklist over a crackdown on opposition.
The move came as Belarusian state television broadcast a 30-second video of Protasevich, who had been living between Lithuania and Poland, confirming that he was in prison in Minsk and “confessing” to charges of organising mass unrest.
>EU cuts air links with Belarus over forced plane landing
The footage showed Protasevich — who could face 15 years in jail — with dark markings visible on his forehead, saying he was being treated “according to the law”.
“This is how (Roman) looks under physical and moral pressure,” exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya wrote on Twitter.
The EU leaders demanded the “immediate release” of Protasevich and Sapega, the conclusions of the summit said.
– ‘Outrageous behaviour’ –
The forced landing of an airliner flying between EU nations has refocused attention on the festering political crisis in Belarus, where Lukashenko has unleashed waves of brutal repression to cling to power.
Western leaders accused Belarusian authorities of essentially hijacking a European plane, while Minsk claimed it had reacted to secure the flight after receiving a bomb threat.
“It is outrageous behaviour and Lukashenko and his regime have to understand that this will have severe consequences,” EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said.
The EU’s push to punish Minsk followed announcements from some nations and airlines that they were cutting links to Belarus.
London also said it had issued instructions for British aircraft to avoid Belarusian airspace.
Ukraine said it would halt direct flights between the two countries and over Belarus, while Scandinavian airline SAS, Germany’s Lufthansa and Latvia-based regional airline Air Baltic said they would be avoiding Belarusian airspace.
In a bid to heighten pressure on Lukashenko, Berlin, London and Brussels summoned the Belarusian ambassadors.
– ‘Completely implausible’ –
Belarus has insisted it acted legally over the grounding of the Ryanair jet, accusing the West of making “unfounded accusations” for political reasons.
Its air force chief said the plane’s captain had decided to land in Belarus “without outside interference” and that the pilot could have chosen to go to Ukraine or Poland.
A senior Belarusian transport official said the authorities received a letter claiming to be from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas threatening to blow up the plane over Vilnius unless the EU renounced support for Israel.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel dismissed Minsk’s explanations as “completely implausible” and the EU demanded a probe by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
The ICAO, a UN agency, is to meet on Thursday.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres backed calls for a “full, transparent and independent investigation into this disturbing incident”.
– ‘Shocking act’ –
NATO slammed a “serious and dangerous incident” and said envoys from the military alliance were to discuss it on Tuesday.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called it “a shocking act”.
The EU and other Western countries have already imposed a wide range of sanctions on Lukashenko’s government over its crackdown on opposition demonstrations that followed his disputed re-election to a sixth term last August.
But Lukashenko has remained defiant with help from his main backer Russia.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab raised the possibility of that Russian had backed the operation.
“It’s very difficult to believe that this kind of action could have been taken without at least the acquiescence of the authorities in Moscow,” he told parliament.
But Moscow has dismissed the outrage in the West.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Minsk was taking an “absolutely reasonable approach” while ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mocked the Western indignation.
“We are shocked that the West calls the incident in Belarusian air space ‘shocking,’” Zakharova said on Facebook, accusing Western nations of “kidnappings, forced landings and illegal arrests”.
Together with co-founder Stepan Putilo, Protasevich until recently ran the Nexta channel on messaging app Telegram, which helped organise the protests that were the biggest challenge to Lukashenko’s 26-year rule.
With close to two million subscribers on Telegram, Nexta Live and its sister channel Nexta are prominent opposition channels and helped mobilise protesters in Belarus.
Protasevich and Putilo were added to Belarus’s list of “individuals involved in terrorist activity” last year.
The spiralling tensions around Belarus were in evidence as Minsk expelled the entire staff of Latvia’s embassy, including the ambassador, after accusing Latvian authorities of having used an opposition flag at an ice hockey championship.
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>I take these threats immensely seriously
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