Claims About Alleged GRU Cyberattack on UK-Based TV Inconsistent - Embassy

The Russian Embassy in London pointed Saturday to the contradictions in the article released by the Financial Times newspaper, which claimed that the Russian military intelligence service GRU had allegedly conducted a cyberattack on the UK-based Islam Channel TV broadcaster in 2015.

On Friday, the Financial Times reported, citing non-designated UK officials, that the GRU officers allegedly hacked the computer network of the UK-based TV station in 2015. The news outlet has not provided any evidence, proving the claims. The newspaper has not specified why Russia would "attack" the broadcaster either. In addition, all the sources of information mentioned in the article were anonymous.

"What is interesting about the article is that it claims that hackers, supposedly, had complete control over the TV channel's infrastructure during the intrusion. Then [the article] claims that the [UK] Home Office staff called [the broadcaster] and informed it of the cyberattack and says that 'we [the TV station's staff] had not noticed any irregularities in the work of the channel until this call.' The information in this article does not withstand the slightest criticism, it seems it was written in a hurry, and the logical pattern was disrupted. [The article's] main goal is clear — to bring another accusation against Russia," a representative of the embassy told reporters.

The representative stressed that the embassy usually refrained from commenting on newspaper articles based on leakages from the UK security services because nobody was willing to take responsibility for the allegations. He added that the UK Foreign Office habitually left Moscow's requests concerning such publications without answer.

On Thursday, the UK Foreign Office said it assessed "with high confidence" that GRU was "almost certainly" responsible for a series of cyberattacks on political institutions, media outlets and infrastructure across the globe. The Foreign Office mentioned a UK-based TV station among the targets of the attacks.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201810071068668689-russia-uk-gru-embassy-tv/

Chinese ‘aggressive industry’ threatens US military complex, ‘stable budget’ needed – Pentagon

A new Pentagon report calls China the main threat to the US military-industrial complex, sounding alarm over the decline of some “critical defense functions,” due to Beijing’s actions, workforce shortages and “unstable” funding.

“While multiple countries pursue policies to bolster their economies at the expense of America’s manufacturing sector, none has targeted our industrial base as successfully as China,” the report, titled ‘Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States,’ says.

The document looks at other problems, such as the decline of certain sectors, namely shipbuilding, as well as the lack of skilled workforce and the unstable flow of contracts for strategic manufacturers, whose highly niche factories sit for years without work. But most of that can be fixed by a “stable and predictable” funding flow to the Department of Defense – which has already secured a record $719 billion budget for the next year.

The document singles out Beijing, branding it a “significant and growing risk” to the supply of the materials vital to the US military, and accusing it of “aggressive” industrial policies.

Beijing’s activities have already allegedly rendered some of the US “critical defense functions” effectively extinct, namely “solar cells for military use, flat-panel aircraft displays, and the processing of rare earth elements.” Other high-tech fields are also seriously “threatened”by China’s actions, the Pentagon claims.

“China’s actions seriously threaten other capabilities, including machine tools; the production and processing of advanced materials like biomaterials, ceramics, and composites; and the production of printed circuit boards and semiconductors,” the report reads.

While Beijing has been focused on the high-tech sector over the past years, its achievements, according to Pentagon, are largely based “on both legal and illicit means, including foreign direct and venture investments, open source collection, human collectors, espionage, cyber operations, and the evasion of US export control restrictions to acquire intellectual property and critical technologies.”

Apart from large-scale industrial espionage, China has achieved “domination” in several fields by unfair trade practices, the US military claims, naming the rare earth elements market as an example. Rare earths are used in the production of turbines, hybrid motors, fuel cells, electronics and other products.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/68662/chinese-aggressive-industry-threatens-us-military-complex-stable-budget-needed-.html

Supreme Court Justices Kagan, Sotomayor concerned about court being viewed as politically divided

Associate Justices of the Supreme Court Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor said they are concerned the court’s legitimacy could be undermined if it is viewed as politically divided.

What did they say?

“We don’t have an army, we don’t have any money, the only way we get people to do what we say that they should do is because people respect us and respect our fairness,” Kagan said in an NJ.com report.

“Part of the court’s legitimacy depends on people not seeing the court in the way that people see the rest of the governing structures of this country now. In other words, people thinking of the court as not politically divided in the same way, as not an extension of politics, but instead somehow above the fray,” she also said.

The two Princeton graduates made their comments Friday during a “She Roars” women’s conference Friday at their alma mater. They avoided saying anything about the contentious atmosphere surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Sotomayor said the “politicization of the court” comes from politicians debating the interpretation of the Constitution.

“Politicians have now superimposed that style on the Court,” she said. “That has hurt the Court and may continue to.”

Kagan, the first female dean of Harvard Law School, said the relationships between the justices is supportive: “We always know everyone is acting in good faith. We have lunch all the time and talk about our families. We laugh at each other’s bad jokes. And we get to escape each other in the summers.”

Neither justice waded into the debate surrounding sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh. But they addressed challenges they have faced as women.

“You can’t be a professional woman, even today, whether it’s in law, in medicine, in any field, without having a moment where someone is going to treat you differently because you’re a woman,” Sotomayor said.

Kagan said she remembers the pictures of the former deans, all of them male and white, that were displayed in her predecessor’s office when she arrived.

“The first thing I did was take that picture down,” she said.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/10/06/supreme-court-justices-kagan-sotomayor-concerned-about-court-being-viewed-as-politically-divided

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