Seen Out and About in Washington DC: #NeverTrumper Rick Wilson Meets Peter Strzok for Lunch at the Bistro Bis
NeverTrump leader Rick Wilson, a favorite of the left, was seen out with fired FBI hack Peter Strzok this week in Washington DC.
Wilson is a regular on CNN.
Strzok is a dirtbag.
The two were seen out dining at the Bistro Bis.
Rich Higgins posted this on Friday.
or the record… Rick Wilson works with George Conway at the Never-Trump den of sore losers at The Lincoln Project.
http://www.madnesshub.com/2020/02/seen-out-and-about-in-washington-dc.html
400 Million Indian Users to Be De-Anonymized; UK Launches Social Media Monitoring Program With Ofcom
All over the world governments are now threatening to monitor social media users’ posts online. Now, India is joining the effort with a new law expected to go into effect later this month that threatens Indian users’ privacy.
Social media companies will have to reveal users’ identities if Indian government agencies request their data, according to the country’s controversial new rules for social media companies and messaging apps with 5 million active users, which is expected to be published later this month, Bloomberg reported.
The new rules would signal blanket cooperation with Indian government inquiries, and would not require a warrant or judicial order. Further, if the law goes into effect, social media companies would be required to trace the origins of a post within 72 hours of a request. It isn’t clear if foreign users would be subjected to this treatment or how such actions would be handled in other countries.
Which, if this author is being honest, it may not be as easy as the Indian government thinks it is to trace users, given the existence of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). In fact, we may see the sale of VPNs like Private Internet Access skyrocket in India alone.
Tech companies like Facebook’s WhatsApp have expressed they will not comply with such requests, saying it threatens their users’ privacy and security.
WhatsApp will “not compromise on security because that would make people less safe,” the company said in a statement, adding its global user base had reached over 2 billion. “For even more protection, we work with top security experts, employ industry leading technology to stop misuse as well as provide controls and ways to report issues — without sacrificing privacy.”
Other tech company executives, from Mozilla Corp., GitHub Inc. and Cloudflare Inc. opposed the rules, writing in an open letter to India’s IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad that the guidelines could lead to “automated censorship” and increased surveillance. In order to be able to trace the originator of content, platforms would basically be required to surveil their users, undermine encryption, and harm the fundamental right to privacy of Indian users, they said.
India isn’t the only country that is now seeking to surveil their internet users. The UK just this week announced Ofcom, an existing communications watchdog, is its pick for enforcing rules around “harmful speech” on social media platforms. This comes after the UK last year established the world’s first independent regulator to keep social media companies in check.
The agency which will now be headed by Ofcom will be designed to make the Internet a safer place. The new regulation firm was jointly announced by the Home Office and Department of Culture, Media and Sport. The government white paper, titled Online Harms, published in the UK, outlines “plans for a world-leading package of online safety measures.”
“The White Paper proposes establishing in law a new duty of care towards users, which will be overseen by an independent regulator. Companies will be held to account for tackling a comprehensive set of online harms, ranging from illegal activity and content to behaviors which are harmful but not necessarily illegal,” the release reads.
All social media companies, file-hosting sites, online forums, messaging services, and search engines will be required to tackle the following issues:
Incitement of violence and the spread of violent (including terrorist) content
Encouragement of self-harm or suicide
The spread of disinformation and fake news
Cyberbullying
Children’s access to inappropriate material
Child exploitation and abuse content
However, according to TechCrunch, Ofcom will not be investigating or adjudicating on “individual complaints” like that of the India organization.
https://www.activistpost.com/2020/02/400-million-indian-users-to-be-de-anonymized-uk-launches-social-media-monitoring-program-with-ofcom.html
Google is tabulating votes
Google forms is a cloud based service, hosted remotely on Google’s servers meaning they host and have complete control over user data. Users authenticate with Google servers to login and access forms and data.
The Democrat Party is consulting with Google to build their web form.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/nevada-democrats-reveal-google-forms-based-plan-for-transmitting-early-vote-data-caucus-results
Nevada Democrats will use a Google Forms-based calculator accessible through a web browser on a party-purchased iPad to transmit early caucusgoers’ presidential preferences back to their home precincts on Caucus Day and submit the final results of each caucus to the party.
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A party official said Nevada Democrats consulted with Google on how they plan to use the company’s technology to carry out the caucus process and have been assured by them that it is a “secure process” and that the company is “comfortable” with it. The official added that Google did not specifically develop anything new for the caucus calculator and that it is “off the shelf technology.”
This is horrifying.
Google whistleblower Zachary Vorhies:
“I worked at Google for 8 years.”
“I felt that our entire election system was going to be compromised forever by this company (Google) that told the American public that it was not going to do any evil.”
“In fact if you brought this up without this document they (Google) would say this is a conspiracy theory”
Google “Machine Learning Fairness” Whistleblower Goes Public, says: “burden lifted off of my soul”
Aug 14, 2019
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1VeElBAeas
Veritas Re-Uploads Google Exposé Taken Down By YouTube Ahead of White House Social Media Summit
Jul 11, 2019
www.youtube.com/watch?v=csP4z8dR6X0
The un-redacted version of this video is still on BitChute: www.bitchute.com/video/re9Xp6cdkro/
Documents
www.projectveritas.com/google-document-dump/
Report
www.projectveritas.com/2019/08/14/google-machine-learning-fairness-whistleblower-goes-public-says-burden-lifted-off-of-my-soul/
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/google-is-tabulating-votes/
https://twitter.com/CoolHuh_/status/1228355966397231104
Today another US patrol tried to cross an SAA checkpoint but was stopped & turned around.
US commander tells the Syrian officer "we are here to bring peace just like the Russians" , Syrian officer replied " Wherever US goes it brings death& destruction, u are not welcomed here"
Russian shock artist arrested in France days after leaking sex tapes of Macron party ex-candidate for Paris mayor
Self-exiled Russian shock artist, Pyotr Pavlensky, has been detained in France over a knife attack. The arrest came shortly after sex tapes he released forced a Paris mayor candidate to withdraw from the race.
Pavlensky was arrested by police after he left his hotel in Paris on Saturday, Le Parisien reported. BFM TV said that the artist had been wanted over “banditry with the use of dangerous means” since an incident at a party on January 1.
At the time, the Russian reportedly had a heated argument with a group of people and grabbed a knife to add weight to his stance. He ended up injuring two partygoers, but was himself hit in the head with a bottle.
The artist insisted that he had to face off against around a dozen adversaries and used the knife only to scare them off. He said he then dropped the weapon on the floor without wounding anybody.
He’s already serving a three-year suspended sentence for setting the entrance to the Bank of France on fire to decry “tyranny” and encourage a new revolution in the country back in 2017.
French law enforcement had a month-and-a-half to apprehend Pavlensky, but they decided to move against him at a really curious moment.
The man was making headlines in the country due to his role in the sex scandal involving Paris mayor candidate Benjamin Griveaux from President Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche party.
On Valentine’s Day, Griveaux announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy a month before the election in order to shield his family, who had been the subject of “defamatory statements, lies, anonymous attacks, exposure of secret private conversations, as well as death threats,” from further harassment.
The politician said the final straw was the publication of sex tapes by Pavlensky’s website, Pornopolitique. However, he neither denied nor confirmed the authenticity of the materials leaked by the shock artist.
Pavlensky accused Griveaux of being a hypocrite, saying that the father of three ran on a platform of family values while actually leading a completely different lifestyle.
He backed those claims by releasing what he said was the politician’s correspondence with a young woman. It included Griveaux allegedly confessing that he considered marriage a “prison” as well as some of the intimate photos and videos he sent to the female.
https://www.rt.com/news/480943-pavlensky-france-arrest-griveaux/
SYRIA UPDATE
Syrian Army Eliminates Turkish-Affiliated Field Commander In Southeast Idlib
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has eliminated a military commander of the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation (NFL), opposition sources revealed on February 15.
The commander, identified by his nom de guerre “Abu Muslim Taoum,” was killed on February 9 in clashes with army units in the town of al-Taliyah in the southeastern Idlib countryside.
Abu Muslim was reportedly the commander of Jaysh al-Ahrar’s Special Forces.
https://southfront.org/syrian-army-eliminates-turkish-affiliated-field-commander-in-southeast-idlib/
New Batches of Displaced Families Return to Syria From Lebanon
In framework of the efforts exerted by the Syrian state for the return of Syrians displaced by terrorism, new batches of displaced families on Thursday returned from Lebanon through the centers of al-Dabbousyia, Jussyia and Jdeidet Yabous in the countryside of Homs and Damascus.
https://syrianobserver.com/EN/news/56048/new-batches-of-displaced-families-return-to-syria-from-lebanon.html
Military Situation In Syria On February 15, 2020 (Map Update)
A brief overview of the recent developments in Syria:
Turkish-led forces shot down a Syrian Mi-8 helicopter near Sallum Mallah;
Pro-government forces liberated Kafr Naha, Urm al-Kubra, al-Muhandisin 2, the Regiment 46 Base, Urm al-Sughra and several nearby points;
Militants reportedly lost up to 4 pieces of Turkish-supplied military equipment in recent clashes near Kafr Halab and Miznaz;
The Syrian Army opened a new front in western Aleppo attacking militants near Sheik Aqil Hill and Kafr Basin;
The Turkish military stepped up its presence around al-Atarib;
The Turkish Army established positions at al-Jeineh in he western Aleppo and Deir Sunbul in southern Idlib;
Late on February 13, the Israeli Air Force bombed Damascus International Airport and Eastern Ghouta.
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-syria-on-february-15-2020-map-update/
Army engineering units dismantle landmines and IEDs planted by terrorists on Aleppo-Damascus Highway
Images
https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=185521
Syrian Government Forces Open New Front Against Turkish Proxies In Western Aleppo
On February 15, Syrian government forces opened a new front against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) and other Turkish-backed militant groups in western Aleppo.
Additionally to advances in the areas of Urma al-Kubra and Kafr Naha, units of the Syrian Army (allegedly supported by the Kurdish YPG) attacked positions of Turkish-backed radicals near Sheik Aqil Hill and Kafr Basin. According to pro-government sources, army troops suppored by the Russian and Syrian airpower are aiming to encircle and clear militants remaining in the western Aleppo countryide.
For this purpose, they will need to take control of Kafr Basin, Babis and Qabtan al-Jabal. After this, the defense of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and their al-Qaeda-linked comrades will collapse. Supplies of MANPADs from Turkey are apparently not enough to change the situation strategically.
https://southfront.org/syrian-government-forces-open-new-front-against-turkish-proxies-in-western-aleppo-map/
Turkey Armed Syrian Militants With U.S.-Made Anti-Aircraft Weapons: Russian Military Source
Turkish Armed Forces deployed 70 battle tanks, 200 armored vehicles and 80 howitzers in Idlib. A large part of these equipment is allegedly being handed over to HTS terrorists.
“It is of particular concern that Ankara had provided the militants in the Idlib de-escalation zone with Turkish military uniforms,” the source added, according to RT.
https://southfront.org/turkey-armed-syrian-militants-with-u-s-made-anti-aircraft-weapons-russian-military-source/
President Bashar al-Assad chairs a meeting on the national project for administrative reform
The Minister of Administrative Development Dr. Salam Safaf gave a presentation on the results of work in the preparatory phase for the implementation of the national project for administrative reform in the Ministries of Local Administration and Environment, Public Works and Housing,and Finance, especially in the areas of human resource management.
The Minister of Public Works and Housing Eng. Suhail Abdul Latif and Minister of Local Administration and Environment, Engineer Hussein Makhlouf presented the new organizational structure of their ministries, which dealt with the problems faced by old dinosaur like administrative structures .
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Mamoun Hamdan clarified the gaps in the current organizational structure of the ministry and the procedures being worked on to correct these gaps.
http://syriatimes.sy/index.php/presidential-activities/46498-president-bashar-al-assad-chairs-a-meeting-on-the-national-project-for-administrative-reform
American Citizens Killed and Tortured by Israel?
No one is ever held accountable
One of the principal functions of a United States Embassy overseas is to provide citizen services, which includes coming to the assistance of Americans who are treated badly by the local government. It is a responsibility that most embassies take seriously, with the exception of the facility currently located in Jerusalem. One has to understand that that is so because the United States Embassy in Israel is like no other. In other countries, the American Embassy exists to support American travelers, businesses and a broad range of national interests. In Jerusalem the Embassy exists to support Israeli interests and to serve as an apologist every time the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes on a killing spree or does something else that is similarly outrageous, to include bombing neighboring Syria every other day.
America’s current ambassador, former Trump bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman, has funded Israel’s illegal settlements, which did not in any way complicate his confirmation as nearly everyone in Congress and the White House does not believe that the Palestinians actually are human beings. Since taking up his position, Friedman has defended Israel when its army sharpshooters have shot down scores of unarmed Gazans, including children, and has both praised and endorsed out-and-out theft by the Israeli government in Jerusalem, on the West Bank and the Golan Heights.
What the U.S. Embassy under Friedman will not do is put any real pressure on the Israeli government if its security forces or rampaging settlers kill, beat, maim or torture an American citizen, especially if said citizen happens to be of Palestinian descent. Indeed, Friedman is only the latest manifestation of Israel-first-itis among U.S. Ambassadors, the rot having started inevitably with Bill Clinton, who appointed Australian citizen Martin Indyk as the first Jewish ambassador to Tel Aviv. The two most recent ambassadors, Friedman and Daniel Shapiro, both political appointees, have also been Jewish. Shapiro so enjoyed being an Israeli that he decided to remain in the country after his appointment as ambassador was completed. He now works for an Israeli government funded think tank.
The Israeli army and police have in fact killed a number of American citizens without any real pushback from the Department of State or White House. The unwillingness to confront Israel on any level stems from the formidable Jewish power in the United States, which uses money and media control to corrupt the political system at national, state and local levels. The media and the chattering political class worry about Russian interference while ignoring the implications of a Haaretz article that appeared on February 12th entitled “AIPAC Must Stop Bernie Sanders – At All Costs!” AIPAC is, of course, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, widely regarded as the chief U.S. lobbying arm of the Jewish state.
https://ahtribune.com/us/israelgate/3890-american-citizens-killed-and-tortured-by-israel.html