Church sex abuse summit a bid for 'concrete change': Vatican

Panama City (AFP) - The Vatican said Friday that next month's meeting of Church leaders in Rome was a unique chance to tackle the "terrible plague" of child sex abuse by Catholic clergy. "This will be an unprecedented occasion to face the problem and really find the concrete measures so that when the bishops will come back from Rome to their dioceses, they will be able to face this terrible plague," Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said.

Gisotti played down questions over why Pope Francis failed to speak out against clergy sex abuse during his ongoing visit to Panama. The pope addressed hundreds of bishops from across Central America on Thursday, the first full day of his five-day visit to Panama for World Youth Day, but never mentioned the scandals. It was the largest gathering of bishops since he announced the February summit with Church leaders from around the world to discuss the biggest crisis facing his papacy.

Gisotti said the Church was under "incredible pressure" and that the issue was never far from Francis' mind. "What I want to underline is that it is not necessary that every speech with every bishops conference – or every situation where there are young people – he has to face this problem," Gisotti told a news conference on the sidelines of the giant meeting of Catholic young people, where he faced questions on the omission. He said the issue "is really very very present" for the 82-year-old pontiff. He said the 21-24 February meeting with the presidents of bishops conferences had been called amid an "extraordinary situation." "You can understand how important this meeting is for the pope," said Gisotti. "This is not the beginning of this battle, it is a painful journey. Probably the most painful journey we can imagine. And this has been said by Pope Benedict and now Pope Francis. So we understand there is an incredible pressure."

In the midst of the worst scandal to affect his papacy, Francis in September summoned the heads of every bishop's conference to discuss the prevention of sexual abuse by clergy and protecting children. Prosecutors in the US state of Pennsylvania found 300 priests were involved in child sexual abuse since the 1940s, crimes that were covered up by a string of bishops. Prosecutors in half a dozen other US states have announced plans for similar investigations. The pope accepted the resignations of several bishops in Chile last year after investigations revealed decades of sexual abuse by clergy in their dioceses.

https://news.yahoo.com/church-sex-abuse-summit-bid-concrete-change-vatican-210726910.html

Transparency advocate group releases trove of hacked Russian documents

A group of transparency advocates released a massive number of hacked and leaked Russian documents on Friday in what is being viewed as retaliation against Russia's sharing of hacked Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails to influence the 2016 presidential campaign. The documents, totaling 175 gigabytes in data, were shared on DDoSecret website and on Internet Archive around the same time on Friday. The scope of the documents shared is far larger than the total known material Russian officials obtained from the DNC and then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign.

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The collection of material, called "The Dark Side of the Kremlin," includes insider information such as “hundreds of thousands of messages and files from Russian politicians, journalists, oligarchs, religious figures, and nationalists/terrorists in Ukraine,” according to the group that posted the documents. The news was first reported by The New York Times.

Special counsel Robert Mueller indicted Russian intelligence members last year for the 2016 hacking of the DNC and former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The Russian government has repeatedly denied hacking the DNC. In a new court filing last week, the DNC said it was also targeted by Russian hackers after the 2018 midterm elections in November. A chunk of the documents include material hacked from Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs that WikiLeaks did not publish in 2016, saying that it “rejects all submissions that it cannot verify” or that it finds “insignificant.”

Emma Best, a journalist and transparency advocate, told the Times that the posting of the Russian files was not done explicitly as payback for Russia’s 2016 hacks and leaks, but said “it does add some appreciable irony.” “Our motive is to collect and make available materials for a subject that was very underexplored — Russian power circles, how they interconnect, their influence operations,” Best said. “People have a cursory understanding of that, but outside of a few experts it hasn’t been looked at in detail and contextualized.” Best, last year, helped organize Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDOS). The site, the Times noted, hosts thousands of leaked documents from multiple countries, and operates similarly to WikiLeaks.

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/427068-activist-transparency-group-releases-trove-of-russian-documents

Links Noted in this article:

Distributed Denial of Secrets

https://ddosecretspzwfy7.onion.to/data/asia/#russia

Dark Side Of The Kremlin

https://archive.org/details/DarkSideOfTheKremlin

Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/world/europe/russian-documents-leaked-ddosecrets.html

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE

Court Filing:

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/01/18/dnc.-.second.amended.complaint.-.file.stamped.pdf

>>4913005

Nikola Tesla did work with both Edison and Ford and as a matter of fact the 2 of them were the ones to help him get here to the states. They stole from him his knowledge to further themselves and destroy him! GE ring a bell to you, read up on it, because when it comes to this particular subject you are quite clueless!

>>4913023

I have no doubt the cabal faction is all over this for sometime now, which is probably why it has been so incredibly shilly here..distract us from the ultimate dig.

>>4913052

From memory here Tesla went to work for Whirlpool (which didn't workout for him)..in the meantime..Edison and Ford worked to sabotage and discredit any work related to his AC/DC Invention.. There is a museum Edison/Ford estate, where Edison gets complete credit for the work of Tesla..which Edison stole from him.

Pentagon to examine possible conflict with Amazon employee in $10B contract

The Pentagon is examining whether Amazon Web Services (AWS) created a conflict of interest by hiring a former Defense Department employee who said he led the agency's effort to move its computing systems onto the cloud, The Washington Post reported. A new lawsuit filed by Oracle centers on Deap Ubhi, who worked at AWS and then the Defense Department before returning to Amazon. His career path is the focus of the investigation into the competition for a $10 billion contract to build and maintain the majority of the Pentagon's cloud computing system, according to court records cited by the Post.

AWS competitor Oracle is arguing that bidding for the program, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), favored AWS. Amazon has denied the claims, according to the Post. The Pentagon previously concluded that Ubhi “did not negatively impact the integrity of the JEDI procurement,” according to the court filing. However, a Pentagon contracting official in the filing said, “I am currently considering whether AWS’s employment of Mr. Ubhi (and potentially others)” has created a conflict of interest.

The contract is expected to be awarded in the spring. Ubhi reportedly recused himself from the JEDI program in October 2017. In the filing, the Pentagon and AWS pushed back against Oracle's claim, calling it a “broad fishing expedition.” “Oracle attempts to use Mr. Ubhi’s voluntary recusal as evidence of supposed bias, when in reality it demonstrates precisely the opposite: Mr. Ubhi acted specifically to avoid any potential conflict by voluntarily recusing himself from any JEDI activities before he eventually returned to AWS,” Amazon’s attorneys wrote in a filing, according to the Post. An AWS spokesperson declined to comment to The Hill on the filings.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/426949-pentagon-to-examine-possible-conflicts-in-cloud-contract-with-amazon

Yes..has to do with cloud systems in this particular instance

>>4913245

I agree with you theory..it is already starting with soft disclosures. Texas had a few different news pieces yesterday.

>>4913279

I remember that Anon, This Nice! The problem I personally have with this is having this in the hands of Bezos or other bad actors..I guess more importantly is this: Should we be privatizing this kind of information?

>>4913317

No question in my mind about Bezos with the C A connections.. Maybe this was allowed in order to cage him..Doesn't this now make him a federal contractor of sorts?

>>4913366

Kek…now that is funny..nope!

>>4913387

I knew that was what you were aiming for, Kek, first time for everything..first time I have been asked that, I liked the way you asked it!

>>4913414

30K Border Crossings Expected as Government Reopens Without Wall Funding

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/25/30k-border-crossings-expected-as-government-reopens-without-wall-funding/

I believe this is the wave you are talking about!

>>4913449

It's a ratings company anon, much like standard and poors or s&p for short.