Hacker group dumps 9GB of 911 related insurance files

We've linked below sixteen images from a very few of the documents from the legal firm Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, who is now Husch Blackwell. More details and files are available on the KickAss dark web hacker forum.

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If the images above are taken down, use the link below:

LINK: https://anonfiles.com/59G5hep8ba/images_zip

We're also releasing a small part of the larger archive of the 911 World Trade Center Litigation documents publicly. There's thousands of files included in the archive. Everyone can freely have a copy of the archive and we would encourage it. However, the archive is completely encrypted using a very strong AES encryption and very strong master keys that will prevent anyone from decrypting the veracrypt containers until we publicly release the keys for each layer. The archive is split between five layers. Layer 1 being the most modest, and Layer 5 containing the most heavy hitting and impactful documents, with Layer 2, Layer 3, and Layer 4 containing ever-increasingly scandalous materials. We encourage everyone to obtain a copy of all five archives. As time goes on, we may publicly release keys for each of these containers if our requests from the involved companies are not met. The link to download the 10 GB archive is below. Stay tuned for the possible release of decryption keys. We may release these keys on our new official Twitter page (@tdo_h4ck3rs) and/or on the dark web hacker forum 'KickAss'.

Below is the link to the torrent file to download the archive. The magnet URL follows the PGP at the end of this release.

LINK: https://anonfiles.com/6fx7q6pfb6/911_Archive.zip_torrent

SHA1 HASH: F4C18CF980648E9FBDAC55952F5F3485DBBA95F9

And finally, a message to the companies directly involved to include the airlines, government agencies, the dozens of solicitor firms, the insurers, and the many others, this is a message directly to you: pay the fuck up, or we're going to bury you with this. If you continue to fail us, we'll escalate these releases by releasing the keys, each time a Layer is opened, a new wave of liability will fall upon you. You know our contact details.

You're welcome, heathens and what's the final lesson? When you're a client of ours and you've accepted an agreement of ours: follow it to the letter. We're not motivated by any political thoughts. We're not hacktivists. We're motivated only by our pursuit of internet money (Bitcoin).

Stay tuned on PasteBin for future announcements related to this leak. We'll always sign all of our releases for verification of authenticity. Subsequent announcements may include this original announcement.

Your friends,

thedarkoverlord (@tdo_h4ck3rs)

Professional Adversarial Threat Group

TheDarkOverlord Solutions LLC, World Wide Web, LLC

https://govtslaves.info/2019/01/01/hacker-group-dumps-9gb-of-911-related-insurance-files/

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The U.S. Is On the Side of Terrorists and War Criminals in Yemen

The Washington Post reminds us how the Saudi coalition war on Yemen helps Al Qaeda:

Last year, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on a powerful Yemeni Islamist warlord, accusing him of being a “prominent military instructor” and fundraiser for al-Qaeda who had also at one point “served with” the Islamic State and financed its forces.

But Abu al-Abbas is not on the run. He is not even in hiding.

By his own admission, Abbas continues to receive millions of dollars in weapons and financial support for his fighters from one of Washington’s closest Middle East allies, the United Arab Emirates, undermining U.S. counterterrorism goals in Yemen.

The Saudi coalition’s cooperation with and support for members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been an open secret for many years. Back in August, the Associated Press published one of the most detailed reports on the coalition’s practice of buying off and recruiting AQAP members as part of their war against the Houthis. Members of the coalition have been working with and supporting known terrorists for years, and they continue to do so even now. Meanwhile, U.S. officials keep justifying U.S. support for the coalition’s war on Yemen by claiming that Saudi and Emirati cooperation on counterterrorism is so very important. The war on Yemen has strengthened jihadist groups both directly and indirectly, and this is just one more example of that. The U.S. continues to support a war that not only benefits jihadists by sowing chaos, but it also backs the governments that directly finance and arm those same terrorists.

As if that weren’t bad enough, the Saudi coalition also includes the war criminals of Sudan. This is also not news, but it is good that it is getting more attention. Mark Perry previously reported on the coalition’s use of Sudanese Janjaweed militia in Yemen in a story for TAC earlier this year. Here is a New York Times report saying much the same thing over the weekend:

Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.

Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

The Saudi coalition uses the foot soldiers of Sudanese genocide to aid in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Yemen, and they have been doing so for years. The U.S. continues to assist a coalition of governments that includes one that has already committed genocide and also includes several more that are in the process of committing the crime of mass starvation against the people of Yemen. There are many ugly chapters in the history of U.S. foreign policy, but our government’s ongoing support for this war is one of the most reprehensible and despicable.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-u-s-is-on-the-side-of-terrorists-and-war-criminals-in-yemen/

CIA’s Afghan Forces Terrorize the Public, Undermine Trust

CIA-backed raiders have 'looser rules of engagement'

17 years into the US war in Afghanistan, various administrations have tried myriad different strategies to try to win the war, many of them involving recruiting local groups. While the Pentagon’s various allies have had well-documented problems, they’re nothing compared to the CIA.

Clandestine and playing fast and loose with the rules, the CIA’s own Afghan forces, various bands of local gunmen with some nominal training, have missions to do, and very little in the way of rules of engagement.

Being told to “search for militants” is all but blanket permission to raid and loot random homes. One survivor of such a raid describes the fighters taking him away for questioning. After they took him, they killed his two brothers and sister-in-law, then burned the house to the ground, killing his 3-year-old daughter.

Provincial officials were deeply critical of the “atrocity,” saying the raid targeted an innocent man. With the CIA’s seal of approval attached to it, however, there is very little that local or even Afghan government officials could do about it.

Investigations into war crimes in Afghanistan are rare, and when the CIA is attached to the matter, official demands for secrecy mean they rarely get off the ground. This has meant standard procedure for such raids is to attack, do what they’re going to do, and then set fire to everything to limit the amount of evidence that could be gathered.

Analysts and locals warn that the CIA-linked groups terrorize the public and are greatly undermining trust in US operations across Afghanistan. There is also little sign anything is going to change.

https://news.antiwar.com/2018/12/31/cias-afghan-forces-terrorize-the-public-undermine-trust/

How the War Party Lost the Middle East

"Assad must go, Obama says."

So read the headline in The Washington Post, Aug. 18, 2011.

The story quoted President Barack Obama directly:

"The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way. … the time has come for President Assad to step aside."

France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain’s David Cameron signed on to the Obama ultimatum: Assad must go!

Seven years and 500,000 dead Syrians later, it is Obama, Sarkozy and Cameron who are gone. Assad still rules in Damascus, and the 2,000 Americans in Syria are coming home. Soon, says President Donald Trump.

But we cannot "leave now," insists Sen. Lindsey Graham, or "the Kurds are going to get slaughtered."

Question: Who plunged us into a Syrian civil war, and so managed our intervention that were we to go home after seven years our enemies will be victorious and our allies will "get slaughtered"?

Seventeen years ago, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban for granting sanctuary to al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.

U.S. diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad is today negotiating for peace talks with that same Taliban. Yet, according to former CIA director Mike Morell, writing in The Washington Post Monday, the "remnants of al-Qaeda work closely" with today’s Taliban.

It would appear that 17 years of fighting in Afghanistan has left us with these alternatives: Stay there, and fight a forever war to keep the Taliban out of Kabul, or withdraw and let the Taliban overrun the place.

Who got us into this debacle?

After Trump flew into Iraq over Christmas but failed to meet with its president, the Iraqi Parliament, calling this a "U.S. disregard for other nations’ sovereignty" and a national insult, began debating whether to expel the 5,000 U.S. troops still in their country.

George W. Bush launched Operation Iraq Freedom to strip Saddam Hussein of WMD he did not have and to convert Iraq into a democracy and Western bastion in the Arab and Islamic world.

Fifteen years later, Iraqis are debating our expulsion.

Muqtada al-Sadr, the cleric with American blood on his hands from the fighting of a decade ago, is leading the charge to have us booted out. He heads the party with the largest number of members in the parliament.

https://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2018/12/31/how-the-war-party-lost-the-middle-east/

Netanyahu: 'Undemocratic for hearing on my cases to happen before election'

“The hearing doesn’t end until you hear my side, and it doesn’t make sense to open the hearing process before the election, if you can’t finish it before the election.”

Holding a pre-indictment hearing on his investigations before the elections on April 9 would be deleterious to democracy, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday.

“The hearing doesn’t end until you hear my side, and it doesn’t make sense to open the hearing process before the election if you can’t finish it before the election,” Netanyahu said in a press conference in Rio de Janeiro.

“Imagine what would happen if a prime minister was deposed before the end of a hearing, and then, at the end of the hearing, [the attorney-general] decides to close the case,” he added. “It’s absurd. It would cause terrible harm to democracy. In a democracy, who will lead is determined according to the polls and not a partial legal process.”

Police have recommended that Netanyahu be indicted on corruption charges in three different cases, and Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit plans to make decisions on all of them at once. Mandelblit said in the past week that the timing of his decision will not be impacted by the election.

Netanyahu said he will not resign if Mandelblit decides to hold a hearing, because “Israel is a country of laws, and according to the law, the prime minister doesn’t have to resign during a hearing process.”

Asked if he thinks the legal establishment is trying to get him, Netanyahu said: “I hope not. That’s why we have laws. Decisions aren’t made based on partial legal processes.”

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/WATCH-LIVE-Netanyahu-speaks-to-reporters-from-Rio-de-Janeiro-575961

>>4552948

It is gay but it's yet to be determined as whether or not it's fake

‘What Kind of Maniacs Are Running This Country?’: Pentagon Rings in New Year With Joke About Dropping Massive Bombs on People

While people across the world celebrated the dawning of the New Year overnight, the U.S. military thought it would be funny to celebrate and make light of one of the things they do best: dropping massive bombs on people and places.

In a since-deleted, U.S. Strategic Command (StratCom), which controls the nation’s strategic missile systems and coordinates offensive nuclear capabilities worldwide, joked that while people in New York City enjoyed the dropping of “the big ball” during the countdown to midnight, “we are ready to drop something much, much bigger.”

Beneath the message was a video (see below), as the New York Times describes it, of “a B-2 stealth bomber soaring across the sky before releasing two GPS-guided bombs that exploded into a giant ball of fire after hitting the ground below.”

While Stratcom deleted the tweet after about three hours—issuing an apology that the message “was in poor taste & does not reflect our values”—plenty of people had already taken screenshots of the message:

Among the reactions of outrage on social media, Walter Schaub, former head of the Office of Government Ethics, simply asked: “What kind of maniacs are running this country?”

https://govtslaves.info/2019/01/01/what-kind-of-maniacs-are-running-this-country-pentagon-rings-in-new-year-with-joke-about-dropping-massive-bombs-on-people/

== Andrew Cuomo pardons 22 immigrants while ripping Trump's 'obsession' with border security

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted clemency to 29 people on Monday, including immigrants who are facing deportation.

In a New Year's Eve, statement, the Democrat took a shot at President Trump for the partial government shutdown, which stems from an impasse over border security funding.

"While President Trump shuts down the federal government over his obsession with keeping immigrants out, New York stands strong in our support for immigrant communities," Cuomo said. "These actions will help keep immigrant families together and take a critical step toward a more just, more fair and more compassionate New York."

Twenty-two of the individuals who received pardons were immigrants who, because of convictions mainly related to drug crimes, could have been deported.

Among the seven others who had their sentences commuted are four convicted murderers and three others behind bars for armed robbery.

The statement from Cuomo's office said all 29 individuals "have demonstrated substantial evidence of rehabilitation and a commitment to community crime reduction."

Cuomo will be sworn in for a third term on Tuesday on Ellis Island, which for about 60 years until 1954 processed millions of immigrants entering the U.S.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/andrew-cuomo-pardons-22-immigrants-while-ripping-trumps-obsession-with-border-security?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true

Trump Proclaims Jan 2019 as Month Committed to Abolish Human Trafficking

In one of President Donald Trump’s final actions of 2018, he proclaimed January as “National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.”

In a lengthy proclamation issued on Dec. 31, Trump said that it’s not enough to merely denounce such horrific assaults, instead, we must “actively work to prevent and end this barbaric exploitation of innocent victims.”

“Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery,” the proclamation stated. “We are morally obligated to confront and defeat the abhorrent practice of human trafficking, and I am keeping my pledge to take aggressive action.”

Such crimes are often described as an everyday problem hidden in plain sight. Data from a landmark Global Slavery Index report in July last year found that 1 in 800 people in the United States lives in modern slavery. The phrase is a broad term used to describe victims of forced labor, sexual exploitation or servitude, and forced marriages, among other abuses.

Trump has made combating human trafficking a focal point of his administration over the past two years. In February 2018, he signed an executive order to dismantle transnational criminal organizations that traffic and exploit people. In January 2018, Trump signed a similar declaration for the month.

In the Dec. 31 proclamation, he linked stopping human trafficking to building a border wall: “I have made it a top priority to fully secure our Nation’s Southwest border, including through the continued construction of a physical wall, so that we can stop human trafficking and stem the flow of deadly drugs and criminals into our country.”

In April 2018 Trump signed into law a bill dubbed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017.” The act makes it easier to take legal action against individuals who use websites to facilitate sex trafficking, while also aiding victims to fight back against websites that profit from their exploitation.

In the same month, the FBI seized Backpage.com, the largest child-sex trafficking website in the United States. Nearly three-quarters of the cases submitted to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children relate to ads posted on Backpage.com.

Reports of suspected child-sex trafficking increased 846 percent between 2010-2015, largely due to the use of the internet, according to The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The bill signed in April has already led to the shutdown of 87 percent of sites used in online human trafficking.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-proclaims-jan-2019-as-month-committed-to-abolish-human-trafficking_2753825.html

>>4553121

Seems like a spook op to me too but least we can dismantle the content. May also be a distraction.

Regional players pressing for peace in Afghanistan: US commander

The commander of US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan has pronounced the prospects of peace with the Taliban while the Pentagon orders the deployment of fresh heavy-lift aviation forces to the region.

“Peace talks (are) out there, regional players pressing for peace, the Taliban talking about peace, the Afghan government is talking about peace,” General Scott Miller, who commands the US-led NATO Resolution Support (RS) mission in Afghanistan, said during a New Year celebration at the RS headquarters in Kabul on Tuesday.

General Miller was apparently referring to Iran whose officials have recently expressed their willingness to help establish peace in Afghanistan.

The top US commander in Afghanistan emphasized that in order to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan there needed to be a political settlement.

He told the soldiers present at the session to be ready for either “positive processes or negative consequences.”

“Are (the RS) able to adapt? Are we able to adjust? Are we able to be in the right place to support positive processes and negative consequences, that’s what I ask you guys to think about in 2019,” Miller said.

Meanwhile, peace talks between the US and the Taliban have gained momentum in past months.

Despite the "positive processes" in the peace talks, there were some negative developments in the processes.

Miller was present at a meeting in October when the most important power broker in southern Afghanistan, Kandahar police chief General Abdul Razeq, was shot dead by the Taliban.

In recent weeks, Pakistan also announced its plans to facilitate negotiations between the Taliban and the United States.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/01/01/584599/Afghanistan-US-Military-Taliban-Peace-Talks-Miller

Trump fires back at McChrystal: 'Known for big, dumb mouth'

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President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal with a string of personal attacks after the former leader of U.S. operations in Afghanistan called the president "immoral" and dishonest.

The president said former President Obama fired McChrystal "like a dog" while quoting a tweet from Fox News host Laura Ingraham that shared a post from a conservative website founded by her that recapped McChrystal's weekend comments.

" 'General' McChrystal got fired like a dog by Obama. Last assignment a total bust. Known for big, dumb mouth. Hillary lover!" Trump tweeted on New Year's Day.

The retired four-star Army general said on ABC's "This Week" that he would not work for the Trump administration if asked, citing the president's dishonesty.

"It’s important for me to work for people who I think are basically honest, who tell the truth as best they know it," McChrystal said.

"I don’t think he tells the truth," he added.

McChrystal has previously been critical of Trump's policies and rhetoric.

He has questioned Trump's decision to send troops to the southern border and has expressed concern over the president's repeated criticism of former military leaders, such as retired Adm. William McRaven.

The president in November derided McRaven, who oversaw the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, as a "Hillary Clinton fan."

Trump used the same line of attack on McChrystal on Tuesday. McChrystal has in the past praised Clinton's work as secretary of State, but had stopped short of formally endorsing her presidential bid against Trump in 2016.

McChrystal led U.S. forces in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010. He resigned after critical remarks he made about Vice President Joe Biden and other civilian leaders were published in Rolling Stone.

Trump is currently in search of a full-time Defense secretary after James Mattis resigned, effective Tuesday. Mattis's resignation came after Trump announced plans to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria.

Trump appointed Patrick Shanahan as acting Defense secretary.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/423400-trump-slams-mcchrystal-amid-criticism-from-retired-general

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State Law Requires Mandatory Flu Vaccines for All Kids Ages 2 to 4: Comply or Don’t Go to School

Children in Connecticut will not be allowed to return to school after the Christmas break unless they probe that they have received the flu vaccine.

New Haven, CT — Parents who fail to get their 2 to 4-year-old children vaccinated for influenza in Connecticut are in for a rude awakening when children return to school after Christmas break. If they cannot prove their child received the flu vaccine, they will not be allowed to return to school.

The new state law is simple: comply or your child cannot go to school.

It is no question that the subject of vaccines is profoundly controversial. On both sides of the argument exists truth and lies that can hinder the ability of some to make rational decisions.

While we have everyone from attorneys to biologists, to political scientists who write for the Free Thought Project, none of us are doctors, so we do not make recommendations about what you and your family should do in regards to vaccination. That being said, however, government mandating vaccinations is a highly unethical practice as it removes the right to informed consent.

Lawmakers claim that the new law is necessary because every year in the US roughly 20,000 children under 5 are hospitalized because of the flu. But historically, the data shows that these numbers are largely skewed.

The CDC has been telling the public for nearly a decade that there are more than 200,000 estimated hospitalizations and 36,000 estimated deaths from influenza in the U.S. every year.

But these estimates count a lot of people hospitalized – not just with influenza but also with pneumonia, respiratory and circulatory illnesses – which they counted as probably associated with influenza.

What’s more is the fact that the flu shot is a crap shoot every year. It was no secret that last year’s vaccine was all but entirely ineffective.

Also, despite reassurance from government officials, the flu vaccine has been documented to cause harm.

As TFTP reported in December, Shane Morgan, like millions of other Americans was vaccinated against the flu virus in November. However, within 36 hours of receiving the shot, he began experiencing symptoms of the flu.

“About 36 hours after he got the flu shot he started to get sick,” said Mr. Morgan’s wife, Monique.

After staying in bed for a week at his house, Morgan did not improve. In fact, things got far worse and he had to be admitted to the emergency room ICU.

Morgan spent the next 3 weeks in the ICU, blinded and paralyzed. He is now home with his family but he is far from back to normal as he’s still partially blind and in a wheelchair.

How many children will experience similar reactions as a result of Connecticut’s new law?

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/state-mandatory-flu-vaccines-children/

Ron Paul On 2019: Rough Times Ahead, But Liberty Can Still Win

While Congress and the president fight over funding a border wall, they continue to ignore the coming economic tsunami caused by the approximately 22 trillion dollars (and rapidly increasing) federal debt. President Trump may not be troubled by the debt’s effect on the economy because he believes he will be out of office before it becomes a major problem. However, the crisis may come sooner than he, or most people in DC, expects.

The constituency for limited government, while growing, is still far outnumbered by those wanting government to provide economic and personal security. From lower-income Americans who rely on food stamps, public housing, and other government programs, to middle-class Americans who live in homes they could not afford without assistance from federal agencies like Fannies Mae and Freddie Mac, to college students reliant on government-subsidized student loans, to senior citizens reliant on Social Security and Medicare, to billionaire CEOs whose companies rely on bailouts, subsidies, laws and regulations written to benefit politically-powerful businesses, and government contracts, most Americans are reliant on at least one federal program. Many programs are designed to force individuals to accept government aid. For example, it is almost impossible for a senior citizen to obtain health insurance outside of Medicare.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-31/ron-paul-2019-rough-times-ahead-liberty-can-still-win