US Republicans & FBI Exploit Orlando Mass Shooting

US Republicans & FBI Exploit Orlando Mass Shooting http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-22/us-senate-likely-to-pass-fbi-spying-bill-after-orlando-shooting/7534988 US Senate likely to pass FBI spying bill after Orlando shooting 23/06/2016 The US Senate on is likely to pass a Republican-backed proposal to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation's secretive surveillance powers after the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub. Key points: Laws would broaden the phone and internet records available to the FBI without a warrant The bill has been criticised by privacy and civil liberty advocates The bill would allow for the permanent surveillance of "lone wolf" suspects The spying bill is the Republican response to the massacre after a push for gun-control measures sponsored by both major US parties failed earlier this week. The legislation would broaden the type of telephone and internet records the FBI could request from telecommunications companies without a warrant. The proposal met opposition from critics who said it threatened civil liberties and did little to improve national security. The bill, which the Obama administration has sought for years, "will allow the FBI to collect the dots so they can connect the dots, and that's been the biggest problem that they've had in identifying these homegrown, radicalised terrorists," Republican Senator John Cornyn said. The vote also represents a bi-partisan drift away from policy positions that favouring digital privacy, which had taken hold in the three years since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed the breadth of government surveillance programs. The post-Snowden moves included the most substantial reforms to the US intelligence community since the terror attacks of September 11 2001, and a refusal to heed the FBI's call for laws that would undermine encryption. Critics say proposed laws 'exploit' the Orlando shooting The legislation before the Senate, filed as an amendment to a criminal justice funding bill, would widen the FBI's authority to use so-called National Security Letters, which do not require a warrant and whose very existence is usually a secret. Such letters can currently compel a company to hand over a user's phone billing records, but under the Senate's change they could also demand time stamps of emails, the emails' senders and recipients, in addition to some information about the websites a person visits. How the shooting unfolded We've put together a timeline of how a gunman killed 50 people and injured 53 others at a crowded nightclub in Orlando. The legislation would also permanently allow the intelligence community to conduct surveillance on "lone wolf" suspects who do not have confirmed ties to a foreign terrorist group. It is unclear if the House would pass the Senate proposal, given its alliance between libertarian-leaning Republicans and tech-friendly Democrats that has blocked past efforts to expand surveillance. Privacy groups and civil liberties advocates accused Republicans this week of exploiting the Orlando shooting to build support for unrelated legislation. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, criticised Senate Republicans for "pushing fake, knee-jerk solutions that will do nothing to prevent mass shootings or terrorist attacks". Though Republicans invoked the Orlando shooting in support of the bill, FBI Director James Comey has said shooter Omar Mateen's transactional records were fully reviewed by authorities who investigated him twice for possible extremist ties. Mr Comey said there was "no indication" Mateen belonged to any extremist group and that it was unlikely authorities could have done anything differently to prevent the attack. Reuters http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-22/us-senate-likely-to-pass-fbi-spying-bill-after-orlando-shooting/7534988 COMMENT This appears to be a typical government power-grab strategy in all Western countries. The US and the West are already surveillance states, so this is just another nail in the coffin of civil liberties and another step toward totalitarianism. Note also:  the FBI Director admits they could not have done anything to prevent the shooting.

Weev On Cuckservative Gavin McInnes & More

ꕤ Video SOURCE | here "I'm Going To Prison For Arithmetic" Andrew Auernheimer aka Weev March 2013 Source  | here YouTube Comment Wei Bin Wang 2 months ago "To explain the 'hack' that he did: On the Apple site, they gave a number to any registered user who uses the site in its URL, and that was what save them the page with their saved email address. What weev did was just add 1 to it, press enter, and it spat out another person's email address. Do the same thing several more times and you'll eventually end up with everyone's email addresses. Hence why he said he was "going to prison for arithmetic." On how he used it, he didn't use it for anything malicious, he just gave his discovery to a journalist. The safest move was to report the exploit to Apple and get a free job or recommendation on his future career, but it's not in his character to do that. The real fault lies in the incompetent design of such a site that made this "gaping hole" in their security. If weev wasn't there, it was only a matter of time before someone else decided to be curious and add 1 to the number of the URL on that site and discover the exploit themselves. The way both the media blasted this out of proportions and the way the judicial system handled it is in some ways surprising, and in other ways very disappointing. The guy just added 1 to a number on a website URL a few times and he gets a trip to prison...for arithmetic! Even to this day, I can't believe he got sentenced to jail for that." source | as above YouTube Comment WellingtonBikeCam01 1 year ago "Someone from AT&T should be in jail over this one." source | as above non-pc Cuckservative "No defense for Gavin McInnes" http://weev.livejournal.com/413176.html#comments Video, Post & Comments ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Bear with video #1 ... it's a little high-energy and seems too much like hard work trying to figure what's going on at first, but it's worthwhile persevering. Jaw-dropping what this guy went to prison for in the US (and the ridiculously huge financial penalty they've slapped him with). Above are a couple of the comments I liked on that YouTube source link. Finally, there's a humorous comment on the state of the MSM. I find this Weev guy funny.  Funny interesting.   And funny humorous, too. Wish I was as creative as Weev.  lol ꕤ

US & EU - Hit Russia with further sanctions

Reuters Article

U.S. hits oil giant Rosneft, other firms with toughest Russia sanctions

By Anna Yukhananov and Steve Holland

WASHINGTON Wed Jul 16, 2014 8:29pm EDT

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama imposed the biggest package of U.S. economic sanctions yet on Russia on Wednesday, hitting Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft (ROSN.MM) and other energy, financial and defense firms, with what he called significant but targeted penalties.

Obama's latest round of sanctions came after close consultations with European leaders, who announced a less-ambitious package. The ultimate impact of the U.S. sanctions likely depends on whether the European Union follows suit.

The extent of the sanctions against key parts of the Russian energy and financial industry, including Gazprombank (GZPRI.RTS), was intended to serve notice to Moscow that its refusal to curb violence in eastern Ukraine has consequences.

The targeted companies also include Russia's second-largest gas producer, Novatek (NVTK.MM), Vnesheconombank, or VEB, a state-owned bank that acts as payment agent for the Russian government, and eight arms firms.

The U.S. Treasury Department said the measures effectively closed medium- and long-term dollar funding to the two banks and energy companies. But the sanctions did not freeze those four companies' assets, or otherwise prohibit U.S. firms or companies from doing business with them. [WOULD NOT RECOMMEND BUSINESS IN USA ... LOL]

It is the first time the United States has imposed such narrowly targeted measures as it seeks the maximum impact on Russia, a huge energy producer, while avoiding any immediate shock to global oil markets or U.S. and EU companies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking in Brasilia, said the sanctions would damage U.S. energy companies, and bring relations with Russia to a "dead end."
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POSSIBLE FURTHER SANCTIONS

Obama said the United States could impose further sanctions if Russia did not take concrete steps to ease the conflict.

The United States has already imposed several rounds of sanctions on Russian and Ukrainian senior officials since the start of the violence, including Rosneft's chief executive, Igor Sechin. But the sanctions have had only a limited impact on the Russian energy industry, a cornerstone of the country's $2 trillion economy.

It is not yet clear how large an impact the new measures will have on Rosneft ...

Sechin, who like Putin was speaking in Brasilia, said the sanctions would not affect Rosneft's current project with ExxonMobil (XOM.N), but would damage the shareholders of U.S. companies cooperating with Rosneft.

The new sanctions would not appear to prevent Rosneft from selling its oil, but may raise questions about the company’s more than $15 billion worth of oil-related finance arrangements with companies including BP (BP.L), which now owns almost a fifth of Rosneft, and Glencore.

Morgan Stanley (MS.N), which is selling the majority of its global physical oil trading operations to Rosneft, declined to comment.

The sanctions stopped short of targeting Russia's Gazprom (GAZP.MM), the world's largest natural gas producer and provider of much of Europe's energy supplies. Gazprombank is 36 percent-owned by Gazprom.  [Gazprom, as I understand, only provides about 30% of European energy supplies.]

RUNNING OUT OF PATIENCE
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The new measures were announced on the same day that EU leaders met in Brussels and agreed to expand their own sanctions on Russia.

The new U.S. sanctions also include Feodosiya Enterprises, a shipping facility in Crimea, and senior Russian officials, several of whom had already been targeted by the European Union.
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The new sanctions were unlikely to please Republican lawmakers, many of whom have been calling for the imposition of sanctions on entire Russian industries, rather than specific companies, as the best way to control Putin.

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SOURCE - Reuters - here.

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COMMENT

Whatever happened to free trade and free market prinicples?  LOL

Any Russians with bank accounts in the US, might want to start withdrawing fast.