Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY [LINK | Article]
Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
Nonstop Cyber Attacks Drive Israel to Build Hack-Proof Defense
By Bloomberg News (Gwen Ackerman)- (Bloomberg) -- In 2013, Israel Electric Corp. registered several hundred potential hacks on its grid each hour. Last year, the figure grew -- to 20,000.
None succeeded. Israel Electric, which controls more than 80 percent of the countrys power production, has dramatically increased its cyber personnel, developed new defense tools and enhanced employee training, said Yosi Shneck, senior vice president of information and communications. The new protections reflect a nationwide effort to make Israel one of the most hack- proof countries in the world.
This year alone, the government established a national authority to help oversee protection of critical civilian systems, the military announced a reorganization of all its anti-hacking units into one command and the central bank became what may be the first in the world to define mandatory cyber- defense steps for financial institutions.
If I ranked the existential threats, cyber would come right behind nuclear weapons, said Carmi Gillon, former head of the Shin Bet domestic security service and chairman of Cytegic, a company that has developed a digital dashboard and tools to help keep companies protected.
Israel and the U.S. face some of the most serious cyber assailants in the world, said Daniel Garrie, executive managing partner of cyber-consulting firm Law & Forensics in New York. That forces them to be light years ahead in prevention.
While attempted hack attacks on Israel reached 2 million a day during last years fighting in Gaza, the country has yet to report destructive events such as the theft of data from about 22 million people at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Hacking Call
The threat is growing. Anonymous, a loosely connected global hacker collective, called in April for a hacking onslaught on the country. The Jewish state was the second-most- hit in the world after the U.S. that month, according to monitoring website Hackmageddon.
The attacks did little more than deface websites. Anonymous claimed Facebook credentials and phone numbers of hundreds of Israelis were posted online.
In March, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a cybersecurity company, detected malware that it suspected came from Lebanon. The alleged targets were defense contractors as well as telecommunications and media companies in 10 countries, including Israel. No further details were given.
Two Cables
Only two cables link Israels Internet network to the world, giving its companies an advantage on the digital battlefield, said Yaron Blachman, director of cyber and technology consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers Israel. They can just turn to their Internet service provider and disconnect, he said.
Israel started building up its defenses more than a decade ago. In 2002, the government created the National Information Security Authority to protect critical infrastructure. In 2012 it established the National Cyber Bureau, an agency within the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that coordinates and advises on policy. The authority established this year will be responsible for protecting civilian entities such as banks, said Yitzhak Ben-Israel, who helped found it.
It isnt enough just to have sophisticated defenses, said Amos Yadlin, a former military intelligence chief who now heads Tel Aviv Universitys Institute for National Security Studies.
You cant be a good defender unless you understand the offense, he said. Therefore, defensive efforts must overlap to some degree with offensive efforts, including those of intelligence collection.
Flame Virus
For instance, Iran says Israel tried to sabotage its nuclear program with the Stuxnet virus. It also attributed the Flame virus, which wreaked havoc on Iranian computer systems in the energy sector, to illegitimate regimes. Israeli officials have declined to confirm or deny whether the country was involved.
Learning to fend off attacks can be profitable. Israel Electric formed a unit called CyberGym with security consulting firm CyberControl to offer companies around the world a simulated control center to practice protecting their networks.
And the new Israeli focus is leading to acquisitions and investments. Elbit Systems Ltd., Israels biggest publicly traded defense company, in May bought a cybersecurity division from Nice Systems Ltd. for $158 million. Two months before that, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.invested in Jerusalem Venture Partners to work with Israeli cybersecurity startups and protect its own operations.
Cytegic chief executive officer Shay Zandani, who established the information-security department in the Israeli Air Force in the 1990s, says many Israeli corporations arent protected against the kind of threats they face. In 2014, one in 10 cyber breaches was in the banking industry, according to a report by FireEye Inc.
Bank Protections
Attacks and attackers targeting the Israeli financial sector have increased and become more sophisticated, according to a May report by Cytegic and cyber consulting firm Konfidas. Lenders have largely been unsuccessful in reining them in, it said. The industry targeted most by hack attacks: information technology.
The Bank of Israel says it appears to be the first central bank in the world to define mandatory steps for cyber defense. Its regulations, issued in March, put pressure on the board of directors and senior management to insure lenders are safe.
Israel is a geopolitical target and attacking the banking sector can damage our economy, said Rachel Jacoby, head of the OpRisks management unit for technology and cyber at the central bank.
To contact the reporter on this story: Gwen Ackerman in Jerusalem at gackerman@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Riad Hamade at rhamade@bloomberg.net Anne Swardson, James Hertling
#Hacker
Identity theft
cemeteries, online obituaries > ID 4 fraudulent a/c
Sth Africa topping recycled deceased ID
prob: loan providers conducting transactions
over phone, often only requiring 3 questions as ID verification
South Africa
also big on phishing attacks (eg fake SA Revenue Service link)
Doubt I'll remember much of the Israeli cybersecurity article, but I thought it was interesting.
Evgeniy Bogachev's got a $3-million FBI reward on his head.
That's a massive amount.
Bogachev better not go to Thailand. Thais love handing ppl over to the Yanks.
Defence Witness: Assange sex-crime case
fabricated by prosecutors
RT NEWS
Studio Presenter
The verdict in the
high profile case of the WikiLeaks founder has been adjourned for
two weeks.
Julian Assange
appeared in court in London on Friday as he continues his battle
against extradition to Sweden where he faces questioning over sex
crime allegations.
He claims the case
was fabricated so the US can use Sweden to hand him over on espionage
charges.
RT's Laura Emmett has been keeping track of developments from outside the court.
RT NEWS
Reporter,
London
“All we're waiting
for is the verdict, and that is due to be delivered, we now know, on
the 24th of February – so in a couple of weeks' time.
We were hearing
today the closing statements made by both the defence and the
prosecution, and now the judge is going to presumably retire to his
chambers for two weeks to think about the evidence that he's heard
and then come up finally with a verdict.
So on the 24th
of February. We're not expecting that to take very long. Literally
everyone will just gather here and the judge will tell us what he's
decided.
In terms of what
we've been hearing on Friday morning, we essentially heard summaries
of the evidence from the prosecution and from the defence. The
prosecution has maintained all along and maintained today that
there's no reason why Assange shouldn't go to Sweden to answer these
questions.
Following the news
of that postponement, Julian Assange came out of the court and gave a
short statement to the media. He used that statement to highlight
what he called the injustices of the European Arrest Warrant, under
which his extradition is being requested.
Let's see what he
had to say.
JULIAN ASSANGE
WikiLeaks Founder
It gives me hope
that we can, through this particular case, not simply draw attention
to the difficulties and the pressures that we and other people have
been under, but, rather, perhaps we have an opportunity to set a new
precedent about the abuses of European Arrest Warrants.
RT NEWS
Reporter,
London
We heard some
graphic details from the defence about these alleged assaults, sort
of almost making light of these allegations, as the prosecution said,
talking about the sexual encounters that took place with two women in
August.
And we also heard an
angry statement by the defence solicitor about comments that the
Swedish Prime Minister has made recently about Julian
Assange. The defence called that a devastatingly prejudicial attack,
and said that the Swedish Prime Minister had spread
malicious lies about Julian Assange, suggesting that he believes that
women's rights are worthless, and also suggesting that he's already
been charged with this 'rape', which, in fact, is not the case at
all.
MARK STEVENS
Defence
In any decent
country, the rule of law is separate from the political process. It
appears that in Sweden it is not, and that the Prime Minister has, I
am afraid to say, sought to taint the legal process. Just one more
example of the quite exceptional behaviour in the Julian Assange case
– another Assange factor.
RT NEWS
Reporter,
London
We heard some quite
graphic details from the defence about these alleged assaults –
sort of, almost making light of these allegations, as the prosecution
said – talking about these sexual encounters that took place with
two women in August.
And we also heard an
angry statement by the defence solicitor about comments that the
Swedish Prime Minister has made recently about Julian
Assange. The defence called that a devastatingly prejudicial attack
and said that the Swedish Prime Minister had spread
malicious lies about Julian Assange, suggesting that he believes that
women's rights are worthless, and also suggesting that he's already
been charged with this 'rape', which, in fact, is not the case at
all.
So that has brought
in a rather worrying political element to the case.
We also heard from
the defence that these charges would not constitute 'rape' here in
the UK, and, in fact, the defence maintains that the essence of the
charges wouldn't constitute 'rape' anywhere else in the world, apart
from in Sweden.
I spoke earlier to
Goran Rudling, who's a Swedish rape campaigner, and he told me about
the bizarre way in which the investigation has been conducted from
the very beginning.
GORAN RUDLING
Defence Witness
It looked like
Julian was declared innocent by one prosecutor.
Then you have to
find out immediately find out, OK, what's the truth: what's his side
of the story?
What they did
instead was try to collect evidence and they interviewed all kinds of
witnesses, in another way which wasn't very good, to try to build a
case against him.
It's like prejudice.
Like they're saying: 'He's guilty; let's get him.”
And of thirteen
people interviewed by the police, three are tape-recorded. Only
three. Julian is tape-recorded on the 30th of August .
The two witnesses that could speak in his favour are tape-recorded.
All the other witnesses are just summary interviews.
Sometimes accusers
change their story, and if we don't have their story, we can't
compare it to the suspect's story. It's impossible to investigate.
RT NEWS
Reporter,
London
This is also a case
that has descended at times into a farce, and today is no exception.
There's a new book
out by a man called Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who used to
work with Julian Assange at WikiLeaks, and he has essentially written
a book about Assange and his relationship with him.
He says that Assange
has an 'emperor complex', that he wants to be the king and the
all-powerful person over everything, and he also alleges that Assange
has turned into the sort of man that he used to hate, the sort of man
that he used to want to bring to justice.
But the most bizarre
thing about the allegations that Domscheit-Berg has
made is something to do with his cat. He said that
Assange lived with him for a while in Weisbaden in Germany and that
Domscheit-Berg has a cat which Julian entered into a
war of supremacy with, essentially attacking the cat and then pulling
back, seeing who would win. Sometimes the cat won, sometimes Assange
won. And he says that that shows that Assange is some kind of
power-hungry maniac.
So, really, a lot of
people are trying to jump on this bandwagon to take advantage of
Assange's fame or infamy, depending on which way you look at it.
Extrajudicial Banking Blockade
WikiLeaks cut off from more than 90% of its finances
Donations
new infrastructure / updated, secure submission system
Drowning in Material
challenge is whether WikiLeaks can scale up
income in proportion to volume of material
Transparency
education / understanding preferred term
Publication
*publish both secret documents & accompanying analyses
*over 10 million documents and associated analyses
Taboo / McCarthyism
*US government employees & US Army blocked
*federal government employees / contractors
must remove WL data from computer & self-report
Readers
Largest number from: India
Closely followed: USA
Media Collaboration
over 100 contracts with media orgs around world
Edward Snowden
Only org that cared about him: WikiLeaks
Snowden abandoned in Hong Kong, esp. by Guardian
Journalists
Activists for the way things are / status quo.
Protection of sources: extreme diligence & professionalism is required.
Book: "The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to the US Empire"
Lack explanation: media economics / short-term news cycles >
Academia failing - geopolitical / technical intersection
Where are the academics? / Not explaining how modern power is exercised
Noam Chomski, 86, still at forefront
Younger academics not keen to risk career
Academia
WikiLeaks:
has published over 2 million diplomatic cables.
single largest searchable repository for international relations of primary source materials.
cannon for international relations [***]
Some research published in Spanish & in Asian languages.
American & English journals silent.
Academia: acts as feeder schools for the US State Dept.
ISA - US association controlling big 5 international relations journals:
has quiet, official policy of not accepting any paper that is derived from WikiLeaks' materials.
NSA Spying on European Govts
US intelligence info very valuable for German intelligence, BND.
NSA Throw Crumbs to Keep Control
Americans probably share/trade info obtained by spying, to keep German spying agency puppet from complaining.
Likewise, Americans probably provide info re such spy partners to the targets of NSA spying, when targets complain about being spied on.
Germans play down the intelligence issue, so as not to expose themselves as weak.
German govt vulnerable to take-down by USA, who have been spying intensively at top level for decade - all it takes is US leaking info to journalists, in terms of pointing journalists in the right direction.
NSA-obtained spy info re politicians can be used for blackmail of politicians.
UK - JTRIG MO
blackmail
fabricating videos
fabricating SMS texts in bulk
creating fake businesses with the same name
selling inferior products, so that the business gets a bad reputation
Concretely documented in Snowden docs. Manning / Snowden
35 years in prison = some deterrent effect.
but it erodes perception of US govt as legitimate authority
just authority perception is the key to legitimacy
USG Assange Charges
Five Types:
espionage
conspiracy to commit espionage
computer fraud & abuse
theft of secrets
general conspiracy
Were the above x1 charge each = 45 yrs
But they're multiples of each type of charge.
Also: Espionage Act has life imprisonment & death penalty provisions.
WikiLeaks - Library
built from courage & sweat of many
during 5-year confrontation with a superpower
What is more powerful than USG & its military & secret services?
Assange:
Physics. Mathematics. The underpinnings of physical reality are harsh and could do with adjustment but it is not clear how.
USA Investigation - Unprecedented Scale & Nature
120 - US Intelligence & FBI officers
Moved from Pentagon to Dept of Justice
FBI continuing to provide "boots on the ground"
Over dozen US agencies - ranging from US State Dept to NSA - involved
WikiLeaks Proceedings
dozen various proceedings, incl:
largest international espionage case against a publisher in history
bogus 'sex case'
role of WikiLeaks in Edward Snowden's asylum
Anti-Terror Act (UK) - Sarah Harrison, investigations editor, Berlin.
criminal investigation / gag order used to cover up a major international bribery Australia
Sweden
"preliminary investigation," initiated during heat of the US conflict
dormant for almost 5 years
NO charges
"In 40 other cases, Swedish prosecutors have interviewed people in Britain during those five years. They have not done that in my case and they placed me under a gruelling bail situation."
Assange had to report each day for 600 days:
"I had to wear a monitoring unit around my ankle. Alleged war criminals from the former Yugoslavia being held on bail here in Britain don't have such conditions. "
Lawyers
WikiLeaks received advice from: abt 150 lawyers across cases.
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German Leak / BNDNSA
Focus of NSA spying:
Global Signals Intelligence Highlights (Executive)
USG very interested in idea that Germany would propose a greater role for China in IMF.
German initiative nipped in the bud: b/c China helping Europe = threat to US dominance.
Google Mass Surveillance
Free services disarming / non-corporate or civic seeming
exporting a specific mindset of culture
"cultural imperialism" / "Disneylandization" of the Internet
ie Google "digital colonization"
new societal rules re activities are permitted and what info can be transmitted
from nipples to: function of public debate & parliamentary lawmaking
"Once something becomes sufficiently controversial, it's banned by these organizations. Or, even if it is not so controversial, but it affects the interests that they're close to, then it's banned or partially banned or just not promoted.
SPIEGEL: So in the long run, cultural diversity is endangered?
Assange: The long-term effect is a tendency towards conformity, because controversy is eliminated. An American mindset is being fostered and spread to the rest of the world because they find this mindset to be uncontroversial among themselves. That is literally a type of digital colonialism; non-US cultures are being colonized by a mindset of what is tolerable to the staff and investors of a few Silicon Valley companies. The cultural standard of what is a taboo and what is not becomes a US standard, where US exceptionalism is uncontroversial."
"package that the US is using to reposition itself in the world against China by constructing a new grand enclosure."
"tighter economic and legal integration with the United States, which draws Western Europe's center of gravity away from Eurasia and towards the United States, when the greatest chance for long-term peace in Eurasia is its economic integration"
Skipped summary in the middle, as I was running out of steam.
Lengthy article, but really worthwhile having a read.
As to, 'cannon for international relations," not sure if he meant 'cannon', as in weapon, or 'canon' as in standard/criterion or maybe benchmark. But doubt he meant 'holy scripture' ... LOL.
Was surprised there's such a big WikiLeaks readership in India, but I guess it makes sense. Large population. English speaking, I think.
EU-NATO IMPERIALISM ❌ 
