Over 202 Million Chinese Job Seekers' Details Exposed On the Internet

Cybersecurity researcher has discovered online a massive database containing records of more than 202 million Chinese citizens that remained accessible to anyone on the Internet without authentication until last week.

The unprotected 854.8 gigabytes of the database was stored in an instance of MongoDB, a NoSQL high performance and cross-platform document-oriented database, hosted by an American server hosting company.

In total, the database contained 202,730,434 records about job candidates from China, including candidates' personal information such as their full name, date of birth, phone number, email address, marriage status, and driver’s license information, along with their professional experience and job expectations.

Moon expects concrete outcome at North Korea-US summit

South Korean president Moon Jae-in predicted that following Kim Jong Un’s visit to China this week, a second US-North Korea summit is imminent, and he expects more concrete outcomes from that meeting than the first, held in Singapore last June.

Moon, speaking at his annual New Year’s press conference, added that the presence of US troops in South Korea and around the region was not linked to North Korea’s denuclearization, but added that the US needed to come up with corresponding measures to encourage North Korea.

New interbank platform shows Asia’s blockchain growth

Chinese banking platform, designed to standardize and digitize interbank transactions, is another example of regional finance embracing blockchain

It became increasingly evident during 2018 that Beijing wants its people to have absolutely nothing to do with digital currencies. However, that does not mean the People’s Republic has shunned the underlying blockchain technology. In fact, quite the opposite is happening in China.

China’s economy shows more signs of running out of gas

Slowdown? China’s economy has probably stalled after data released earlier this week showed that auto sales went into reverse for the first time in nearly 20 years.

The findings came off the back of falling consumer confidence and illustrate the depth and scale of the problems facing President Xi Jinping’s administration.

In a snapshot of the state of the country’s economy, the China Passenger Car Association reported that car sales fell 5.8% last year to 22.35 million vehicles. This was the first annual decline since 1990.

Globally, this resembles a motorway pile-up for major international car brands as China is the largest auto market in the world.

“The situation turned out grimmer than we thought,” Cui Dongshu, the secretary-general of the Association, said. “[But] it will be positive, at least 1% up in 2019. And [the government] has said it is considering offering some stimulus to encourage car purchases, which will be a further boost.”

Overall, this has been a depressing fourth quarter.

Dismissal of CBI chief undermines India’s war on corruption

In a major setback for the probity and independence of anti-corruption bodies in India, a panel led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi sacked the chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday night. The CBI is the equivalent of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and is the premier anti-corruption body in India.

The government’s urgency to remove Alok Verma within a day of being reinstated by the apex court raises several questions. Some say that Verma was set to order a preliminary enquiry (PE) into the Modi government’s plans to buy 36 Rafale combat jets from France, a deal that has provoked difficult questions from the Opposition.

In October 2018, the Modi government had removed Verma, after he filed a case against his deputy, Rakesh Asthana, accusing him of accepting a massive bribe. Both Verma and Asthana belong to the elite Indian Police Service (IPS). While Verma has been removed, Asthana has been sent on leave, but the case against him remains active. Another senior intelligence official, Samant Goel, whose name also cropped up in the investigation against Asthana, remains in a powerful position in India’s external intelligence agency.

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Iranian MP: Our national security is being damaged on the streets of our cities

Jan. 10, 2019 - Last Sunday, Jalil Rahimi Jahanabadi, an Iranian MP from the so-called reformist faction, while questioning the high costs for Iran’s foreign policy—read costs for exporting fundamentalism to the region and supporting terrorist groups around the globe—said in an open session of the Iranian parliament: “Our national security isn’t damaged by our enemies but on the streets of our own cities.”

Since nationwide protests over economic grievances erupted in late 2017, different ruling factions have taken to blame each other for the current situation.

“In our foreign policy, we have much unnecessary high costs. Although our regional influence is important, but we should not forget one thing,” Rahimi Jahanabadi said.

Comparing the current situation of the Iranian regime with the final period of the Soviet Union, he said: “Sometimes, unnecessary costs may pin us down on the streets of Tehran. When the Soviet Union collapsed, it had 13 thousand nuclear warheads, influence and presence in more than 20 countries, and the Mir space station, but it was torn down on the streets of Moscow and its security and territorial integrity were destroyed.”

“Today, the people have difficulties in making ends meet, to feed their children, to feed the hungry of this country, if we can’t remedy the unnecessary costs for foreign policies, the unnecessary costs for internal policies, our national security will be damaged not by our enemies but rather on the streets of our own cities.”

One of the famous slogans Iranians have been shouting in their demonstrations is, “No to Gaza, no to Lebanon! I’ll sacrifice my life for Iran.

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Good catch

Romania's Liviu Dragnea files ECJ lawsuit against European Commission after corruption claims

Romania’s most powerful politician has filed a lawsuit against Brussels after claims of corruption involving EU funds.

The country’s anti-corruption directorate (DNA) accused Liviu Dragnea, leader of the ruling Social Democrats (PSD), of a €21 million scam.

It based its accusations against Dragnea on investigations by the European Commission’s anti-fraud office, OLAF.

Dragnea rejects the claims and has now moved to sue the commission because it is OLAF’s supervisory body, reported AFP.

The case has been filed at the European Court of Justice but a spokeswoman said no further details were available at this stage.

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How long has Donald Trump been president? and Hillary lost

Donald Trump's Presidential oath was administered by Chief Justice John Roberts on January 20, 2017 at 11:47 ET.

He has been president for:

1 year, 355 days, 7 hours, 48 minutes and 26 seconds

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The United States Isn't a Country

— It's a Corporation!

The date is February 21, 1871 and the Forty-First Congress is in session. I refer you to the "Acts of the Forty-First Congress," Section 34, Session III, chapters 61 and 62. On this date in the history of our nation, Congress passed an Act titled: "An Act To Provide A Government for the District of Columbia." This is also known as the "Act of 1871." What does this mean? Well, it means that Congress, under no constitutional authority to do so, created a separate form of government for the District of Columbia, which is a ten mile square parcel of land.

What??? How could they do that? Moreover, WHY would they do that? To explain, let's look at the circumstances of those days. The Act of 1871 was passed at a vulnerable time in America. Our nation was essentially bankrupt — weakened and financially depleted in the aftermath of the Civil War. The Civil War itself was nothing more than a calculated "front" for some pretty fancy footwork by corporate backroom players. It was a strategic maneuver by European interests (the international bankers) who were intent upon gaining a stranglehold on the neck (and the coffers) of America.

The Congress realized our country was in dire financial straits, so they cut a deal with the international bankers — (in those days, the Rothschilds of London were dipping their fingers into everyone's pie) thereby incurring a DEBT to said bankers. If we think about banks, we know they do not just lend us money out of the goodness of their hearts. A bank will not do anything for you unless it is entirely in their best interest to do so. There has to be some sort of collateral or some string attached which puts you and me (the borrower) into a subservient position. This was true back in 1871 as well. The conniving international bankers were not about to lend our floundering nation any money without some serious stipulations. So, they devised a brilliant way of getting their foot in the door of the United States (a prize they had coveted for some time, but had been unable to grasp thanks to our Founding Fathers, who despised them and held them in check), and thus, the Act of 1871 was passed.

Romania working on granting amnesty to politicians imprisoned for corruption

Romania may be close to granting amnesty to politicians who have been imprisoned for corruption — a move that could rekindle protests against decriminalising corrupt acts.

This is not the first time that the Romanian ruling party, the Social Democrats (PSD) has tried to decriminalise some corruption offences, including abuse of office, defined as officials not doing their jobs properly and causing damage.

The ruling leftist Social Democrats’ leader Liviu Dragnea, who was involved in a corruption case himself, has been a die-hard supporter of the law changes. The Social Democrats saw elements of the anti-corruption crackdown as a witch hunt.

In January 2017, tens of thousands of Romanians gathered on the streets of Bucharest to protest government plans to decriminalise some misconduct offences and pardon convicts through emergency decrees. These were the largest demonstrations in the country since 1989.

The bitch makes me sick but this gave me a chuckle and posting it because she's crying about it

Pelosi blasts treasury secretary after briefing for 'wasting' lawmakers' time

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin of "wasting the time" of lawmakers after a classified briefing Thursday in which he was supposed to shed light on the Trump administration's decision to lift sanctions on companies linked to a Russian oligarch.

Pelosi called it "one of the worst classified briefings we've received from the Trump administration," despite "stiff competition."

"The secretary barely testified," Pelosi told reporters afterwards. "He answered some questions, but he didn't give testimony. They had an intelligence briefing, which I won't go into, and then they read a document that was unclassified, wasting the time of members of Congress."

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Just because its fictional, doesn't mean it's not real-Ocasio-Cortez