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Anonymous ID: a262aa Dec. 5, 2022, 4:58 a.m. No.17879452 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>9457 >>9648 >>9715 >>9831 >>9946 >>0016 >>0127

"Strategic airbase Engels-2 just hit in drone attack. Two TU-95 Bear bombers destroyed on the ground. Near Saratov, Russia. About 600km from Ukraine."

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11502793/Russian-bombers-damaged-suspected-Ukrainian-drone-strike-Engels-2-airbase.html

Two Russian nuclear bombers 'are damaged in suspected Ukrainian drone strike on airbase'

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everything stated requires banks and pedo.and/or cannibal blackmail- neither are the realms of China.

Hackers linked to Chinese government stole millions in Covid benefits, Secret Service says

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/chinese-hackers-covid-fraud-millions-rcna59636

Hackers linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million in U.S. Covid relief benefits, including Small Business Administration loans and unemployment insurance funds in over a dozen states, according to the Secret Service.

The theft of taxpayer funds by the Chengdu-based hacking group known as APT41 is the first instance of pandemic fraud tied to foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals that the U.S. government has acknowledged publicly, but may just be the tip of the iceberg, say U.S. law enforcement officials and cybersecurity experts.

The officials and experts, most speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject matter, say other federal investigations of pandemic fraud also seem to point back to foreign state-affiliated hackers.

“It would be crazy to think this group didn’t target all 50 states,” said Roy Dotson, national pandemic fraud recovery coordinator for the Secret Service, who also acts as a liaison to other federal agencies probing pandemic fraud.

The Secret Service declined to confirm the scope of other investigations, other than to say there are more than 1,000 ongoing investigations involving transnational and domestic criminal actors defrauding public benefits programs, and APT41 is “a notable player.”

And whether or not the Chinese government directed APT41 to loot U.S. taxpayer funds or simply looked the other way, multiple current and former U.S. officials say the fact of the theft itself is a troubling development that raises the stakes. One senior Justice Department official called it “dangerous” and said it had serious national security implications.

“I’ve never seen them target government money before,” said John Hultquist, head of intelligence analysis at cybersecurity firm Mandiant. “That would be an escalation.”

The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not respond to requests for comment.

‘The horse is out of the barn’

As soon as state governments began disbursing Covid unemployment funds in 2020, cybercriminals began to siphon off a significant percentage.

The Labor Department Office of Inspector General has reported an improper payment rate of roughly 20 percent for the $872.5 billion in federal pandemic unemployment funds, though the true cost of the fraud is likely higher, administration officials from multiple agencies say.

In-depth analysis of four states showed 42.4% of pandemic benefits were paid improperly in the first six months, the department’s watchdog reported to Congress last week.

A Heritage Foundation analysis of Labor Department data estimated excess unemployment benefit payments of more than $350 billion between April 2020 and May 2021.

“Whether it’s 350, 400 or 500 billion, at this point, the horse is out of the barn,” said Linda Miller, the former deputy executive director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, the federal government’s Covid relief fraud watchdog.

By the time that Covid relief funds appeared as a target of opportunity in 2020, APT41, which emerged more than a decade ago, had already become the “workhorse” of cyberespionage operations that benefit the Chinese government, according to cyber experts and current and former officials from multiple agencies. The Secret Service said in a statement that it considers APT41 a “Chinese state-sponsored, cyber threat group that is highly adept at conducting espionage missions and financial crimes for personal gain.”

Ambassador Nathaniel Fick, head of the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, said cyber espionage is a long-time Chinese national priority aimed at strengthening its geopolitical position.

“The United States is target number one, because we are competitor number one.” Fick told NBC News. “It’s a really comprehensive, multi-decade, well-considered, well-resourced, well-planned, well-executed strategy.”

American officials have blamed Chinese actors for the Office of Personnel Management breach, the Anthem Health breach, and the Equifax breach, among others.

The experts and officials describe the Chinese model of “state-sponsored” hackers as a network of semi-independent groups conducting contract work in service of government espionage. The Chinese government may direct a hacking group to attack a certain target. APT41, also known to cybersecurity firms as Winnti, Barium and Wicked Panda, fits the model and is considered a particularly prolific Chinese intelligence asset, known to commit financial crimes on the side.

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Demian Ahn, a former assistant U.S. attorney who indicted five APT41 hackers in 2019 and 2020, said the evidence showed APT41 had tremendous reach and resources. The defendants, who were accused of infiltrating governments and companies around the world while conducting ransomware attacks and mining cryptocurrency, talked “about having tens of thousands of machines at one time, as part of their efforts to obtain information about others, and also to generate criminal profits.” None of the five Chinese nationals indicted have been extradited, and the cases remain open.

APT41’s intrusion methods have included hacking legitimate software and weaponizing it against innocent users, including businesses and governments. Another tactic involves tracking public disclosures about security flaws in legitimate software. APT41 uses that information to target customers who don’t immediately update their software, according to a former Justice Department official familiar with the group.

The primary purpose of APT41’s state-directed activity, say the experts and officials, is believed to be collecting personally identifying information and data about American citizens, institutions and businesses that can be used by China for espionage purposes.

“They have the patience, the sophistication and the resources to carry out hacking that has a direct impact on national security,” said a former Justice Department official familiar with the group.

Law enforcement officials and counterintelligence experts have testified to Congress that by now, every adult American has had all or most of their personal data stolen by the Chinese government.

‘Wild West’

Beijing has increasingly turned its focus to breaching U.S. critical infrastructure in recent years, say current and former officials and China and cybersecurity experts, with worldwide campaigns driven by APT41.

China’s targets include state governments, which can have inadequate cybersecurity defenses. “The state governments don’t allocate a lot of cyber protection money to their state I.T. infrastructure,” said William Evanina, the former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. “So it’s really an unprotected Wild West.”

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The Covid fraud scheme that the Secret Service has publicly linked to APT41 began in mid-2020 and spanned 2,000 accounts associated with over 40,000 financial transactions.

“Where their sophistication comes in is the ability to work heavily and quickly,” said the Secret Service’s Dotson.

The agency said it has been able to recover about half of the stolen $20 million.

But while Evanina and other officials and experts consider APT41’s breach of state systems a national security issue, they aren’t convinced that stealing Covid funds was a goal of the Chinese government. Such thefts increase the risk of criminal prosecution and make it harder for China to obscure the state’s role. They believe that the Chinese government may have simply tolerated the hackers making a profit off their labors.

Many believe the hackers are still inside state IT systems.

Mandiant, which contracts with over 75 state and local government organizations and agencies, issued a report in March that the APT41 had infiltrated six — and likely more — state governments using back doors in popular software and was exfiltrating data on citizens.

Hultquist told NBC News that Mandiant analysts discovered at least two occasions involving interactions with servers associated with state benefits after May 2021.

Current officials would not comment about whether APT41 still had access to state government networks after being discovered last year.

The Department of Labor, the Small Business Administration, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the White House all declined to comment and referred NBC News to the DOJ. The FBI and DOJ declined to comment. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment.

But Evanina said, “Once you are in these systems with intent to promulgate theft of PII [Personally Identifying Information], you’re in forever,” noting that at the state and local level many disparate systems share an interconnected domain. “Unless,” he said, “you tear down the systems and replace everything.”

State agencies across the country continue to struggle against invisible online attackers, many lacking the proper funding and expertise to secure their online benefits systems.

“If we can come together and really have open and honest conversations about what works well and what went very wrong, we would just be in a much better place to stop this,” said Maryland Secretary of Labor Tiffany Robinson, who said her state’s system is still bogged down by thousands of fraudulent applications and phone calls each week. “Because this is not over.”

Federal officials acknowledge they are nowhere close to fully accounting for what really happened to benefits programs in the pandemic.

“A lot of these criminals, we’ll never be able to indict and locate,” said a federal law enforcement official with direct knowledge of fraud investigations involving China-based hackers. “With the internet and the dark web, it’s borderless.”

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Anonymous ID: a262aa Dec. 5, 2022, 5:41 a.m. No.17879531 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>9542

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https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_genetica08.htm

Humans Have Already Been Cloned by Russ Kick

It’s now routine to see news stories about various mammals being cloned. Almost always, these reports mention that this “brings us one step closer to cloning humans,” “human clones are right around the corner,” and other clichés. What every last one of these insightful stories fails to mention is this: Humans have already been cloned.

I’m not talking about the “artificial twinning” experiments performed in 1993 at the Washington University Medical Center.1 Although newspapers were quick to trumpet this as human cloning, it was soon revealed that in reality this was a relatively primitive procedure in which an already-fertilized egg was split into two fertilized eggs. A nice party trick, but Mother Nature already does it thousand of times a day when she creates twins, triplets, etc.

The real cloning took place two years later, in 1995, although it wasn’t revealed until mid-November 1998.2 Unbelievably, only a few small newspaper stories weakly revealed one of the most important biotechnology developments of all time. In fact, it’s probably one of the most important developments in the history of science and technology, period.

Working under the auspices of the private company Advanced Cell Technology and using the facilities of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, scientists James Robl and Jose Cibelli created a human clone. They took cells from Cibelli’s leg and cheek, put them alongside a cow’s ovum with the genetic material stripped out, and added a jolt of electricity.

One of Cibelli’s cells fused with the cow’s ovum, which acted as though it had been fertilized, and the cells began dividing. This is the same process used to create Dolly, the famous cloned sheep from Scotland, only this was done before Dolly was created.

A small story in the Boston Globe reported the following about this achievement:

The experiments were privately funded, and therefore aren’t bound by government regulations on embryo research….

The researchers fused a human skin cell with a cow egg stripped of its nucleus because that avoided using a scarce human egg to nurture the genetic program of the new embryo, they said.3

So what happened to the clone?

The scientists destroyed it when it reached the 32-cell stage. In other words, the zygote had already gone through five divisions and was on its way to becoming a human being. Scientists aren’t completely certain what would’ve happened if the zygote had been allowed to develop in a womb or in vitro, since such a thing has never been attempted (as far as we know), but Dr. Patrick Dixon has an educated guess:

If the clone had been allowed to continue beyond implantation it would have developed as Dr. Cibelli’s identical twin. Technically 1% of the human clone genes would have belonged to the cow—the mitochondria genes.

Mitochondria are power generators in the cytoplasm of the cell. They grow and divide inside cells and are passed on from one generation to another. They are present in sperm and eggs.

Judging by the successful growth of the combined human-cow clone creation, it appears that cow mitochondria may well be compatible with human embryonic development.4

Dixon is the author of ten books, including The Genetic Revolution, which in 1993 predicted many of the cutting-edge advances in biotech that have since come to pass.

He was also responsible for catapulting Dolly to international stardom, convincing the first two newspapers that ran the story that this was indeed a newsworthy development.

As for why the experiment was performed, CEO Michael West said that it was strictly to harvest stem cells, not to create a human being.

As the Boston Globe article explained:

The embryos would be allowed to develop for only a few days, at which time they would be stripped of their “embryonic stem cells” that would be grown in laboratory dishes. These stem cells, the primordial cells in every human embryo from which all of the hundreds of different types of cells are descended, would be kept in their undifferentiated state for as long as needed.

Then, presumably, they could be directed to develop into one or more of a long list of tissues and organs to treat human illnesses, among them diabetes, heart failure and Alzheimer’s disease. However, the means to order stem cells down particular developmental paths are in their infancy.

Each patient’s own cells—scraped from a cheek or a piece of skin—would be used to make the human-cow embryo. The resulting donor tissues could then be transplanted back into the patient without the body’s immune system rejecting them, because they would be genetically identical.5

West explained why the zygote was destroyed at the 32-cell stage:

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“‘We wanted to take a timeout,’ said Michael West, chief executive officer of Advanced Cell Technology Inc., ‘and get input from ethicists and public policy-makers’ before committing more time and money to the project.” 6

One month after this startling development, scientists in South Korea said that they, too, had cloned a human:

Researchers at the infertility clinic of Kyunghee University Hospital in Seoul said they had grown an early human embryo using an unfertilized egg and a cell donated by a woman in her 30s….

Lee Bo-yon, a researcher with the hospital’s infertility clinic, told Reuters that the human embryo in the Kyunghee University experiment divided into four cells before the operation was aborted.

“If implanted into a uterine wall of a carrier, we can assume that a human child would be formed and that it would have the same gene characteristics as that of the donor.” 7

Unlike the Advanced Cell Technology experiment, all cells involved in the Kyunghee experiment were human, and they all came from the same woman.

These stories would’ve probably created more of a stir if the embryos had been allowed to mature into full-fledged babies. It would make “great television” to show a gurgling baby while a voiceover explains that it’s a clone. Still, the silence is inexplicable. If the budding embryos hadn’t been destroyed at the 32-cell and 4-cell stages, they certainly had a good chance of becoming humans.

Naturally, lots of embryos self-abort (i.e. miscarriages), and cloned animals have a higher-than-average rate of lethal mutations, so there are certainly no guarantees that the babies would’ve made it to term.

Despite that, though, the cloning of a human has already been accomplished. The ova were fertilized for all intents and purposes, and they were going through the normal divisions and growth that every one of us went through in the womb. Yet these red-letter days in science have been forgotten. Articles since then have utterly ignored these accomplishments.

For example, on August 5, 2000, an article in the Washington Post noted:

“Since the 1997 birth of Dolly—the first animal cloned from an adult cell—scientists around the world have announced successful clonings of mice, cows and most recently pigs.” 8

My heart skipped a beat when I saw this Associated Press headline on August 13, 2000: “Research on Human Cloning Hushed.”

I thought that perhaps the media had remembered their own tiny reports in late 1998. No such luck. Amazingly, the article talks only about the possibility that humans probably could be cloned sometime in the indeterminate future, neglecting to mention that it’s already happened.

Here are some representative excerpts:

Dolly’s creators at Scotland’s Roslin Institute boasted she embodied the promise of animals that could produce drugs and organs for humans. But from the moment her birth was announced February 23, 1997, many interpreted her arrival as confirmation that cloning of humans lurked around the corner—despite the institute’s careful attempt to downplay that prospect.

“I’d be absolutely flabbergasted if we saw it in my lifetime,” Grahame Bulfield, Roslin’s chief executive, reiterates more than three years later. “It’s a nonsensical bit of hype.” Still, scientists say some of their colleagues are undoubtedly working on it, encouraged by further success with cloning animals such as cows and pigs.

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[Dr. Severino Antinori, the head of the International Associated Research Institute in Rome] said many fertility clinics are beginning to take more seriously the idea of cloning babies.

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Biologist Brigitte Boiselier, the Montreal-based scientific director of Clonaid, a company set up the month after Dolly’s birth was heralded with banner headlines worldwide, said her lab is trying to perfect cloning in humans.

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Eric Schon, a molecular biologist at New York’s Columbia University, believes the creation of cloned babies could be two to five years away.

“If it can be done, it will be done,” he said. “The moment it could be done in sheep and mice and cows, it was only a matter of time for human cloning.” 9

I suppose this reporter could’ve missed the brief acknowledgements in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Knight Ridder, Reuters, the BBC, and Dr. Dixon’s heavily-trafficked Website that discussed the fact that humans have already been cloned, but how to explain the ignorance of the people quoted in the article?

Several theories spring to mind. Since the idea of cloning humans is so controversial, they don’t want to admit that it’s already happened. Given the fact that Advanced Cell Technology didn’t admit its research for three years, this seems quite possible.

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It also seems that some scientists don’t feel that these accomplishments qualify as their definition of cloning, apparently because the embryos weren’t allowed to mature. They want to see a mewling infant; the fact that the ova were dividing and in the process of creating a human being doesn’t count for some reason. Do I sense professional jealousy?

Finally, owners of companies engaged in cloning obviously want to be credited with being the first to clone a human, so they’re not going to let the cat out of the bag. In the above AP article, notice that Brigitte Boiselier of Clonaid “said her lab is trying to perfect cloning in humans.”

That’s a very telling word. She’s not trying to develop it, create it, devise it, pioneer it, or anything like that—she’s trying to “perfect” it, which leads me to believe that she knows it’s already been done, and Clonaid may have done it themselves.

Given the secrecy in this area—not only did Advanced Cell Technology keep the lid on for three years, but even the announcement of Dolly was delayed until she was eight months old—you have to wonder what other human cloning news has been kept from us.

After all, the Americans created their clone in 1995, and the Koreans in 1998. What’s happened in the years since then? For all we know, there might be babies and toddlers out there who are clones.

But that is speculative, while the achievements of the American and Korean scientists are not.

The next time some news report breathlessly announces that human clones could possibly be created sometime soon, just remember that you’re being lied to. They already have been.

Endnotes

Anonymous. (1993). “Embryo experiment succeeds.” New York Times, Oct 24.
Saltus, Richard. (1998).

“News of human-cow cell raises ruckus.” Boston Globe, November 14; McFarling, Usha Lee. (1998).

“Bioethicists warn that human cloning will be difficult to stop,” Knight Ridder, November 18;

anonymous. (1999).

“First cloned human embryo revealed,” BBC News, June 17.

Op cit., Saltus.
Dixon, Patrick, Dr. “Human cloning from cow eggs and human cells.” Global Change Website.

5 . Op cit., Saltus.

6 . Ibid.

7 . Dixon, Patrick, Dr. “Human cloning: First embryo made in Korea or Britain?” From original article by Reuters. Global Change Website.